The Dead, Christian Kracht
The Dead, Christian Kracht
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The Dead
A Novel

Author: Christian Kracht, Daniel Bowles

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Unabridged: 3 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/17/2018


Synopsis

In The Dead, the follow-up to his acclaimed novel Imperium (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year), Christian Kracht mines the feverish film culture of the 1930s to produce 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 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.

About Christian Kracht

Christian Kracht is a Swiss novelist whose books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. His novel Imperium received the 2012 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meike on March 14, 2025

English: The Dead Swiss Book Prize 2016 Hermann Hesse Prize 2016 In this book, German and Japanese fascism try to forge a "celluloid axis" to fight Hollywood - it's a ghost story about a horror movie, a book about art and propaganda as well as German and Japanese culture in the 1930s, told in a Western......more

Goodreads review by Kamilė | Bukinistė on December 17, 2021

4*, o iš jų 1* avansu - nes neišmanau kino meno, industrijos ir istorijos. Ir tai, esu įsitikinusi, priežastis kodėl nepavyko pilnai mėgautis kūriniu. Aš kartais jaučiu, kai geranoriški žmonės nuoširdžiai žavisi - kaip tu perskaitai tiek knygų, kaip taip pažįsti autorius, seki naujienas, sugebi mėgau......more

Goodreads review by Kurkulis on April 05, 2021

Smags gadījums: man patika, bet es neko nesapratu vai arī neko nesapratu, bet man patika Šķiet, noskatījos melnbaltu filmu ar daudziem izteiksmīgiem tuvplāniem ... avangardisku mēmo filmu.......more

Goodreads review by Gavin on March 26, 2019

Der Asienkenner Christian Kracht ist nicht nur im räumlichen Sinne ein Kosmopolit, sondern auch im zeitlichen. Immer wieder führen seine Romane den Leser in entfernte Gegenden der Welt – Asien selbstredend, den Nahen und Mittleren Osten oder die Südsee – aber auch in die unterschiedlichsten Zeiten u......more