Books: The hippie Edwardian Christopher Isherwood led a life of contrasts: he chronicled Thirties Berlin, fell under the spell of a swami and eventually became `the gay movement's favourite uncle'. Paul Willetts assesses a magisterial new biography

The Independent on Sunday | May 23, 2004| | Copyright

For even the most revered writers, death tends to herald an abrupt dip in literary prestige. Christopher Isherwood's stock was, however, declining long before then. Unable to sustain the exacting standards that he set during the Thirties, his subsequent books failed to justify the lofty expectations of leading critics. By the time he succumbed to prostate cancer just over 18 years ago, Isherwood was less prominent as a writer than as an eternally boyish figurehead of the so-called gay liberation movement that had emerged in the Sixties and Seventies.

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