The director a novel
"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 nobod...
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| Language: | English German |
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Summit Books,
2025.
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| Edition: | First Summit Books hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | "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, 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."-- |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Lichtspiel. |
| Physical Description: | 333 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781668087794 |
| Author Notes: | Ross Benjamin is the translator of numerous works of German language literature, including Franz Kafka's Diaries , Clemens J. Setz's Indigo , Joseph Roth's Job , Kevin Vennemann's Close to Jedenew , Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion , and Daniel Kehlmann's The Director , Tyll , and You Should Have Left . The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Benjamin was also awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov . His translation of Tyll was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and The Director was selected as a New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year and was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. |
