EAN: 9781529435115

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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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