Authors: Christopher Isherwood
ISBN-13: 9780816633692, ISBN-10: 081663369X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: March 1999
Edition: 1ST UNIVER
With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy for his father's great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin and the pursuit of meaningless relationships.