Overview
āA great Faustian fable, and a literary endeavor of historical ingenuity that we now may start to characterize as Krachtian.ā āKarl Ove Knausgaard
The follow-up to Christian Kracht's acclaimed novel Imperium (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year), The Dead mines the feverish early years of the Nazis' rise to power 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 NƤgeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitlerās Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware that NƤgeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objectiveāto 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 Hollywoodās growing influence and usher in a new golden age of Japanese cinema by exploiting his Swiss visitor. The arrival of NƤgeliās film-star fiancĆ©e and a strangely thuggish, pistol-packing Charlie Chaplināas well as the first stirrings of the winds of warāsoon complicates both Amakasuās and NƤgeliās plans, forcing them to face their demons . . . and their doom.
"The Dead is the beautiful, brilliant, and utterly mad novel that Thomas Mann would have written had he known the East like Yukio Mishima and loved his adopted Hollywood with the gusto of Nathanael West." āJoshua Cohen
"The Dead is a story of love and sadness in times when the weak were broken by the unforgiving ideologies of fascism and National Socialism . . . I read The Dead twice in a row, first for the story and then for the beauty of the prose." āSjĆ³n
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