by Christopher Isherwood · Suhrkamp Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518461228
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«Der Einzelgänger» is the novel by Christopher Isherwood translated into German by Axel Kaun, published by Suhrkamp in paperback (181 pages, in German).
George, a 58-year-old literature professor, lives in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. His days pass between routine and memories of his deceased partner, until a nocturnal encounter with a student breaks his isolation. A novel about loneliness, desire and identity, narrated with irony and melancholy.
The work was originally published in 1964; this German edition appeared in 2009. It is part of the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch collection (no. 4122).
For readers of classic twentieth-century fiction and LGBT literature, interested in introspective novels about identity and loneliness.
Christopher Isherwood was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which was the basis for Cabaret (1966); A Single Man (1964), adapted into a film directed by Tom Ford in 2009; and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".
