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El Director / The Director - by Daniel Kehlmann (Paperback)

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  • El retrato de un legendario director de cine convertido en un arma de propaganda nazi.
  • About the Author: Daniel Kehlmann (Múnich, 1975) es doctor en Filología germánica.
  • 376 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Historical

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El retrato de un legendario director de cine convertido en un arma de propaganda nazi. La nueva novela del finalista al Premio Booker Daniel Kehlmann, autor del fenómeno editorial más importante en Alemania desde El perfume.

«El mejor escritor alemán de su generación. Deslumbrante. Una novela que engancha». -Salman Rushdie

G.W. Pabst, uno de los más grandes directores de cine, quizás el más grande de su época, está rodando en Francia cuando los nazis llegan al poder. Hollywood se presenta como la única salida para escapar de los horrores que anuncia la nueva Alemania, pero, bajo el sol cegador de California, el famoso director es un don nadie, y ni siquiera Greta Garbo, la actriz a la que catapultó, quiere ayudarle.

Su fracaso y las noticias sobre la enfermedad de su anciana madre lo llevarán de regreso a su Austria natal, ahora ocupada, en lo que supondrá la oportunidad perfecta para que el ministro de Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, pueda captar de nuevo al genio del cine. Pabst está decidido a no dejarse someter por ninguna dictadura y responder solo ante el séptimo arte, pero la telaraña de la maquinaria nazi ha empezado a encerrarle en una posición desesperada.

Daniel Kehlmann retrata con maestría el pacto fáustico que dio lugar al descenso de Pabst a los infiernos, al convertirse en el cineasta del Tercer Reich. El director explora las complicadas relaciones entre arte y poder, belleza y barbarie, gloria y fracaso, en una novela tan entretenida como mordaz.

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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 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.



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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 La medición del mundo ha sido la novela más exitosa de la literatura alemana contemporánea después de El perfume. Entre sus otros títulos cabe destacar F, Tyll (finalista del prestigioso Premio Booker Internacional) y Deberías haberte ido, todos ellos publicados en Random House. El director es su última novela. En la actualidad, Kehlmann es profesor en la Universidad de Nueva York.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 5.29 Inches (W)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 376
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Historical
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Theme: World War II
Format: Paperback
Author: Daniel Kehlmann
Language: Spanish
Street Date: April 7, 2026
TCIN: 1007251142
UPC: 9788439745129
Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-6941
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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