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“A great Faustian fable, and a literary endeavor of historical ingenuity that we now may start to characterize as Krachtian.” ―Karl Ove Knausgaard
In Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware that Nägeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective―to create a monumental, modernist, allegorical spectacle to warn the world of the horror to come.
Meanwhile, in Japan, the film minister Masahiko Amakasu intends to counter Hollywood’s growing influence and usher in a new golden age of Japanese cinema by exploiting his Swiss visitor. The arrival of Nägeli’s film-star fiancée and a strangely thuggish, pistol-packing Charlie Chaplin―as well as the first stirrings of the winds of war―soon complicates both Amakasu’s and Nägeli’s plans, forcing them to face their demons . . . and their doom.
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The Dead: A Novel
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"Originally published in German in 2016 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Germany, as Die Toten" -- ECIP galley.
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Die Wiedergeburt der gothic novel aus dem Geist des Kinos
Christian Krachts neuer Roman »Die Toten« führt uns mitten hinein in die gleißenden, fiebrigen Jahre der Weimarer Republik, als die Kultur der Moderne, besonders die Filmkultur, eine frühe Blüte erlebte.
Hier, in Berlin, »dem Spleen einer unsicheren, verkrampften, labilen Nation«, versucht ein Schweizer Filmregisseur, angestachelt von einem gewissen Siegfried Kracauer und einer gewissen Lotte Eisner, den UFA-Tycoon Hugenberg zur Finanzierung eines Film zu überreden, genauer gesagt: eines Gruselfilms, genauer gesagt: in Japan. Das überschneidet sich mit ebensolchen Plänen im dortigen Kaiserreich, mit denen man dem entstehenden Hollywood-Imperium Paroli bieten will ...
Ein Roman in betörend-magischer Sprache, der das Geheimnis des Films als Kunstwerk der Moderne feiert, seine großen Meister von Murnau bis Lang, die Sehnsucht großer Künstler nach Transzendenz und Erlösung und die Erinnerung als Quelle unseres Ichs. Ein Roman über die Geister, die ständig unter uns sind, ob wir es wollen oder nicht.
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