num_pages: 127
description: Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a semi-comic novel about the UK film industry. It centers on the production of the vacuous movie melodrama Prater Violet, set in Olde Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and a genial young screenwriter -- the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.
language: English
title: Prater Violet
titlecomplete: Prater Violet
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Film, LGBT, Gay, Queer, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1548
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press