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The Director by Daniel Kehlmann is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Director about?
"Nothing short of brilliant."—The Wall Street Journal"A surpassingly gifted storyteller." —The New York TimesFrom "one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today" (Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize–winning author), a visionary tale inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst, who fled to Hollywood to resist the Nazis only to be forced to return to his homeland and 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,...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Daniel Kehlmann
- Publisher
- S&S/Summit Books
- Published
- 2025
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.43 / 5 (1,055 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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