YOUNG ISHERWOOD
LIONS AND SHADOWS, by Christopher Isherwood; Methuen. English price, 9/6. YOUNG Isherwood, at — boarding school and at Cambridge University, was miserable because he had failed "the test’-he had been born too late (continued on next page)
BOOKS (continued trom previous page) to fight in the Great War, His autobiography (which was first published in 1938) is partly the story of the disillusionment of England in the 1920s, and partly a description of the friends of Isherwood’s youth, among whom young W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender appear in slight disguise. But it is mainly the story of the development of a promising novelist. In 1938 Christopher Isherwood was the great hope of English fiction. Lions and Shadows does not explain why he failed to mature completely, but it’ does show clearly the influence of André Gide on the author of Mr. Norris Changes Trains-as much in the author’s pose of introspective, cynical failure, as in the fact that this is also, in part, the story of a young man writing a book called Lions and
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 734, 7 August 1953, Page 13
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