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"Across [The Dead], Kracht leaves clues and tracks (perhaps traps) for the readers to connect (or tumble into), eschewing certainty through deliciously stimulating ambiguity in a remarkable, elegiac, sensual, often grotesque and hilarious novel. a remarkable, elegiac, sensual, often grotesque and hilarious novel." --Jan Wilm, The Los Angeles Review of Books "The Dead reads like a reboot of J. G. Ballard's Crash, in a treatment by Wes Anderson, after a weekend spent binge-watching John Schlesinger's version of The Day of the Locust. The result draws out a comically bleak but shakily ambiguous vision of the coming image-world of fascist politics and Tinseltown productions, and of how both authorized a new power of the screen in startlingly effective ways." --Eric Banks, Bookforum "[Christian] Kracht is one of the pre-eminent German-language authors of the last twenty years . . . Like any stylist, he courts his own readership and creates his own genre. And still, there is joy [in The Dead] for everyone, prose that astonishes, personal tragedies that mar the heart, and set pieces of outstanding oddness. When one is reading Kracht, one is nowhere else." --J.W. McCormack, Longreads "Like Cabaret, Christian Kracht's novel The Dead . . . evokes a brightly colored burlesque Weimar period . . . balance[d] precariously between real and unreal." --Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine "Excellent ... some inspired moments and images." --Publishers Weekly
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In The Dead, the follow-up to his acclaimed novel Imperium (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year), Christian Kracht mines the feverish early days of Weimar Germany for a Gothic tale of global conspiracy, personal loss, and historical entanglements large and small. In Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nageli 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 Nageli 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 Nageli's film-star fiancee 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 Nageli's plans, forcing them to face their demons . . . and their doom.
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- VerlagFarrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Erscheinungsdatum2018
- ISBN 10 0374139679
- ISBN 13 9780374139674
- EinbandTapa dura
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten208
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The Dead : A Novel
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018
ISBN 10: 0374139679
ISBN 13: 9780374139674
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Hardcover
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
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