Прощай, Берлин _ Hoşçakal, Berlin

"Proshchay, Berlin", vpervyye opublikovannyy v 1939 godu, — samoye, bozhaluy, izvestnoye proizvedeniye Kristofera Ishervuda, shirokoy populyarnosti kotorogo nemalo posluzhil snyatyy po yego motivam Bobom Fossom s Layzoy Minelli v glavnoy roli fil'm "Cabaret". Eto proizvedeniye prinyato nazyvat' romanom, odnako s tem zhe uspekhom kniga mozhet schitat'sya i kontseptual'nym sbornikom rasskazov. Rasskazov, ob"yedinennykh obshchim geroyem, vremenem i mestom.Itak, geroy — nebogatyy molodoy angliyskiy pisatel'. Vremya — strannaya, zybkaya, sumerechnaya epokha samogo nachala 1930-kh, nezadolgo do prikhoda k vlasti natsional-sotsialistov. I nakonets, mesto — Berlin, samyy bogemnyy iz megapolisov dovoyennoy Yevropy, nervnyy Berlin "dzhazovoy ery". y, sostoyatel'nykh yevreyskikh intellektualov i mnogikh, mnogikh drugikh passazhirov besputnogo Noyeva kovchega svobody — kovchega, kotoryy ochen'skoro prevratitsya v "Titanic"...