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11 février 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.12023
- isbn: 9782367812489
- eisbn: 9782367813981
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Aude Haffen, « The Brothel and the Kimono: Christopher Isherwood’s Humble, Queer, Inoperative Goodbye to Berlin », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.12023
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The Berliners the narrator/character meets and depicts in Goodbye to Berlin (1939) are the casualties of the 1929 crisis and scapegoats of the Nazi State to come. Isherwood’s Berlin is a brothel-house where self-reliance has been replaced by ubiquitous vulnerability and matter-of-fact resilience. It is also a place where a young Jewish store manager is apt to don a kimono over his business suit, embodying a more sophisticated form of humble resistance, androgynous, passive, oriental. Goodbye to Berlin’s queer voice and loosely built, cinematic, inoperative narratives constitute a ‘humble’ text, undermining from below fascist ideologies, liberal-humanist certainties and aesthetic fallacies.