A genuine interpretation of the times -- Frank Kermode Only now that Isherwood is dead can the pattern be seen clearly in a life that ranged restlessly from Oxbridge skeptic to Hindu disciple, from literary collaborator with W. H. Auden to Boswell of prewar Britain and postwar Hollywood. . . . His novels and nonfiction now all seem to be chapters of one enormous work in which he is the major character * Guardian * Christopher Isherwood is back in vogue * Independent * That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands -- Somerset W. Maugham