Prater Violet Author:Christopher Isherwood Isherwood?s story centers on the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disc... more »iple, a genial young screenwriter: the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.« less