Prater Violet
First edition | |
| Author | Christopher Isherwood |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | literary fiction |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1945 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Prater Violet (1945) is Christopher Isherwood's fictional first person account of film-making. The Prater is a large park and amusement park in Vienna, a city important to characters in the novel for several reasons. Though Isherwood broke onto the literary scene as a novelist, he eventually worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter. In this novel, Isherwood comments on life, art, commercialization of art and Nazism.