2004-12-15

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LA Weekly: Books: The Isherwood Equation

'He was always exploring, always in doubt, never hanging on to things. That's what he said about Los Angeles,' notes Parker. 'What he liked about it was its impermanence. What's going to survive? Perhaps nothing. And he found that reassuring. If you want to know what it was like to live through the 20th century, he was there. When they were burning the books in Berlin, in Hollywood, in the British movie industry, communes, mystical religions, lost a partner in the First World War, survived the Second. It's all there.'