I'm a big fan of Isherwood's work, primarily for the way he writes about his pre-WWII experiences in Germany (and for the way he writes his characters). I'm glad I read some of his work already before starting Christopher and His Kind, because this autobiography sheds so much light on his work, his life, and the work he wrote based on his life.

What fascinates me about this book in particular is that Isherwood writes about his life from an outside perspective, alternating 'Christopher' with only the occasional 'I', as if writing a biography rather than an autobiography. This is actually very much in line with much of the rest of his work, where the narrator is a fictionalised version of himself ('Christopher Isherwood', or 'William Bradshaw', if you will). In Christopher and His Kind he confirms that (and to which degree) the fictionalised Isherwood is an unreliable narrator - and I can't help but wonder if the 'narrator' of Christopher and His Kind isn't at least a little unreliable, too.

Wonderful autobiography - can't wait to read more of his work.