The Director

A chilling exploration of artistic complicity and the blinding power of ego. Kehlmann takes a scalpel to the life of legendary film director G.W. Pabst, who flees a failing Hollywood career only to willingly trap himself inside the Nazi propaganda machine. Convinced he can outsmart the regime and remain purely an artist while dining with monsters, Pabst slowly drowns in a suffocating web of moral bankruptcy. An unsettling novel about ambition, self-delusion and moral rot.