It was definitely something to shock middle-class parents. Marxism was fashionable among the young, especially because its rhetoric was all about revolution. In Homage to Catalonia (1938), George Orwell gives a powerful demonstration of what happens when this political idealism is put to the test. If we look at the larger context, in terms of the 1930’s as a literary period, writers such as George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene also come to mind.ģIn the increasing political polarization between Communism and Fascism, many of these writers chose to be romantic socialists. Being a novelist, Isherwood was an exception in that respect. The Auden Generation, to use the title of Samuel Hynes’s influential study 1, had a number of things in common : they were all students and close friends at Oxbridge in the 1920s, upper-middle-class, politically left-wing and aspiring poets. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day-Lewis and Louis MacNeice. In Britain, he is predominantly associated with the Auden Circle.
1 Samuel H ynes, The Auden Generation : Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s, Lond (.)ĢIn the United States, whither Isherwood emigrated in 1939, he is best known as the author of the Berlin Stories, a book comprising the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939), the basis for the successful stage and film adaptations I am a Camera and the musical Cabaret, starring Liza Minelli in the film of the same name.
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