EAN: 9781529435115

KEHLMANN DANIEL THE DIRECTOR

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025   A New York Times Notable Book of 2025   A
Telegraph Book of the Year 2025   A Guardian Book of the Year 2025   An Observer Book of the
year 2025  'Supple  horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times    'Nothing short of
brilliant' Wall Street Journal    'A subtle  often darkly funny novel about the relationship
between art and power' Sunday Times    'A dazzling performance and a real page turner' Salman
Rushdie   From 'one of the brightest  most pleasure-giving writers at work today' (Jeffrey
Eugenides)  a visionary tale inspired by the life of the 20th century film director G.W. Pabst
who left Europe for Hollywood to resist the Nazis and then returned to his homeland with his
wife and young son and began making films for the German Reich.  An artist's life  a pact with
the devil  a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.  G.W. Pabst  one of
cinema's greatest  perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was
filming in France  to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under
the blinding California sun  the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even
Greta Garbo  who he made famous  can help him. And thus  almost through no fault of his own  he
finds himself back in his homeland of Austria  which is now called Ostmark. The returning
family is confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. But Goebbels  the minister of
propaganda in Berlin  wants the film genius  he won't take no for an answer and makes big
promises. 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.   Daniel Kehlmann's novel about art and power  beauty and barbarism is a
triumph. The Director shows what literature is capable of.

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