The Director by Daniel Kehlmann
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK * A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT BOOK CLUB PICK"Nothing short of brilliant." --The Wall Street Journal
From "a surpassingly gifted storyteller" (The New York Times), a visionary novel inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst, who fled to Hollywood to resist the Nazis only to return to his homeland to create propaganda films for the German Reich.
An artist's life, a pact with the devil, and the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.
G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, the Hollywood actress whom he made famous, can help him.
When he receives word that his elderly mother is ill, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife, and his young son are suddenly confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. So, when Joseph Goebbels--the minister of propaganda in Berlin--sees the potential for using the European film icon for his directorial genius and makes big promises to Pabst and his family, Pabst must consider Goebbels's thinly veiled order. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.
Kehlmann's latest oeuvre explores the complicated relationships and distinctions between art and power, beauty and barbarism, cog and conspirator.
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann has been translated into over forty languages. The Candide Prize, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Literary Prize, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize are among the honors he has earned for his work. Kehlmann spends time in both Vienna and Berlin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781668087794 |
| ISBN 10 | 1668087790 |
| Title | The Director |
| Author | Daniel Kehlmann |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | S&s/Summit Books |
| Year published | 2025-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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