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Author: Daniel Kehlmann

Mr. V. Papst, a leading director of the interwar period, the man who brought Greta Garbo to prominence and became widely known as the "Red Papst" due to his political stance, is in France filming when...

Mr. V. Papst, a leading director of the interwar period, the man who brought Greta Garbo to prominence and became widely known as the "Red Papst" due to his political stance, is in France filming when Hitler comes to power in Germany. Out of fear of Nazi brutality, he flees to Hollywood. 

However, under the dazzling California sun, the giant of world...

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  • Release 06/10/2025
  • Pages Pages 416
  • Cover Cover Hardcover
  • Translation Translation Kostas Kosmas
  • Publisher Publisher Ekdoseis Kastanioti
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Mr. V. Papst, a leading director of the interwar period, the man who brought Greta Garbo to prominence and became widely known as the "Red Papst" due to his political stance, is in France filming when Hitler comes to power in Germany. Out of fear of Nazi brutality, he flees to Hollywood. 

However, under the dazzling California sun, the giant of world cinema appears as a dwarf. And so, Papst gradually and subtly approaches the Third Reich until he almost unknowingly finds himself in wartime Austria, idle and a prisoner within his own home. Nevertheless, the Propaganda Minister in Berlin has his own plans for him. 

Papst will be forced, whether he likes it or not, to balance between the light of cinema and the shadow of the darkest dictatorship in modern history, embodying the complex tension between creativity and moral integrity. Daniel Kellman explores the art and power, beauty and barbarity. His new novel is a literary triumph.

They said about the book

“Daniel Kellman, the most refined German author of his generation, focuses on the life of prominent filmmaker G. B. Paps and crafts a tragicomic historical fiction that, spanning from Hollywood to Nazi Germany, from Garmbo to Goebbels, shows how even a great artist can make—and because of them, be destroyed—moral compromises with evil. A dazzling, captivating book that you can't put down.” Salman Rushdie

“Unparalleled masterful and inventive book. Kellman is among the most perceptive novelists of our time.” Jeffrey Eugenides

“It is a wonderful book about complicity and the complicity of art. Black and White is also funny and clever.” Zadie Smith

“The best book by Daniel Kellman in his literary career so far.” The Guardian

Manufacturer

Author
Daniel Kehlmann
Publisher
Ekdoseis Kastanioti
Publishers
Kastaniotis Editions
Type
Historical Novel, Fiction
Subtitle
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Cover
Hardcover
Number of Pages
416
Release Date
06/10/2025
Publication Date
2025
Dimensions
14x21 cm

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