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...MEETING BY THE RIVER, by Christopher Isherwood. 191 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...dinner party 30 years ago, Somerset Maugham turned to his hostess and, in one of his rare pronouncements on writers and writing, remarked that the future of English literature was in the hands of a handsome young man across the room, Christopher Isherwood. Not long afterward Isherwood abdicated; in 1936, he emigrated to California and left much of his creative vitality in England. Apparently only Irish expatriates write better when they leave their native land...
...Maugham was exaggerating, he at least had a point. Isherwood writes so well that his recent brief, cameolike novels, Down There on a Visit, A Single Man and now A Meeting by the River, surpass most of the encyclopedic psychodramas produced by men laboring under weightier careers...
...prevailing mood winds in the Berlin of 1930 were blowing toward Nazism and war-not exactly the bubbly stuff of which a heady musical is made. In its re-creation of the vulgarity of the era, this musical is a success of style. But its book, based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, is an intrusion...
CABARET. The prevailing mood winds in the Berlin of 1930 were blowing toward Nazism and war-not exactly the bubbly stuff of which a heady musical is made. In its very success at recreating the decadence and vulgarity of the era, this adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin acts more as a depressant than a stimulant...