The first of the novels packaged together as The Berlin Stories, this novel begins with our narrator (clearly some kind of stand in for Isherwood, though more in the vein of The Single Man than of Prater Violet) noticing a curious man in the train car. The scene is marked not quite with the element of desire, but there’s something to it in terms of being attracted attention-wise to someone standing out. The novel then takes place in the various meetings and events surrounding the friendship between the […]
My first impression were that the stranger’s eyes were of an unusually light blue.
Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
