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A wonderful book about complicity and the complicity of art. It's also funny, and brilliant. -- ZADIE SMITH, author of The Fraud, via the Ezra Klein Show Daniel Kehlmann is shockingly brilliant, a writer of extraordinary range and grace. At times absurdist, at times horrifyingly realist, The Director asks where the moral duty of the artist resides, and how the narcissism of the artistic project can bleed into complicity. -- Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds

A wonderful book about complicity and the complicity of art. It's also funny, and brilliant. -- ZADIE SMITH, author of The Fraud, via the Ezra Klein Show Daniel Kehlmann is shockingly brilliant, a writer of extraordinary range and grace. At times absurdist, at times horrifyingly realist, The Director asks where the moral duty of the artist resides, and how the narcissism of the artistic project can bleed into complicity. -- Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds The Director is engrossing and luminous, an epic act of historical imagination and an intimate parable about moral compromise and the seductions of art. After Tyll, I wasn't sure how Kehlmann could possibly top himself. He has. This book is a marvel. * Ayad Akhtar * Daniel Kehlmann, the finest German writer of his generation, takes on the life of the eminent film director G. W. Pabst to weave a tragicomic historical fantasia that stretches from Hollywood to Nazi Germany, from Garbo to Goebbels, to show how even a great artist can make, and be unmade by, moral compromises with evil. A dazzling performance and a real page turner. * Salman Rushdie *

A wonderful book about complicity and the complicity of art. It's also funny, and brilliant. -- ZADIE SMITH, author of The Fraud, via the Ezra Klein Show

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Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He has published six novels: Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski, Fame, F, You Should Have Left and Tyll and has won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature.

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