The Director

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P Daniel Kehlmann (Múnich, 1975) es doctor en Filología germánica. Su obra ha recibido prestigiosos galardones, como el Premio de Literatura de la Fundación Konrad Adenauer, el Premio Kleist, el Candide, el Thomas Mann y el Frank-Schirrmacher, entre otros. Su libro x{0026}lt;I La medición del mundo x{0026}lt;/I ha sido la novela más exitosa de la literatura alemana contemporánea después de x{0026}lt;I El perfumex{0026}lt;/I . Entre sus otros títulos cabe destacar x{0026}lt;I F, Tyll x{0026}lt;/I (finalista del prestigioso Premio Booker Internacional) y x{0026}lt;I Deberías haberte idox{0026}lt;/I , todos ellos publicados en Random House. x{0026}lt;I El directorx{0026}lt;/I es su última novela. En la actualidad, Kehlmann es profesor en la Universidad de Nueva York.x{0026}lt;/P