Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Great Regulars: If anyone was in a position to rig

the evidence in a bid for sympathy, it would have been [Christopher] Isherwood. And what was he writing this journal for? As a memorial to his tortured self, to be read, after his death, first by his lover, and thereafter by the public. Look at the monstrous burden he lays on [Don] Bachardy in the passage quoted above. He offers him, or seems to offer him, the right to burn the journal.

from James Fenton: Times Literary Supplement: Living with Isherwood

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