Nosferatu

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de Jim Shepard

Type

Novel

Sujet

Director > F.W. Murnau

Mots Clés

F.W. Murnau, novel

Année d'édition

1998

Editeur

Knopf

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Hardcover • 215 pages
5 x 8 ½ inches (12.5 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-679-44667-2
978-0-679-44667-5

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Description de l'ouvrage:
From this prodigiously talented writer, a stunningly original "life" of F. W. Murnau, the German director.

In the history of cinema, this novel's protagonist and subject ranks as a founding father, not least for his legendary horror film, Nosferatu. But here he is revealed as a hermetic genius who turns, tragically, against himself, becoming in a sense his own vampire. What shadows Shepard's Murnau--through the airfields of the Great War to cafés and clubs in Berlin in the twenties, and to the virtual invention of filmmaking--is the conflict between his impossibly high ideals and the heartbreaking memories of love betrayed and the lover who died in the trenches.

From provincial Germany, briefly through Hollywood in its early days, to the South Seas, Nosferatu charts a life at once artistic, intellectual, and deeply human.

À propos de l'auteur :
The author of four earlier novels and Batting Against Castro, a collection of stories, Jim Shepard lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Revue de Presse:
... mordantly funny and moving ... -- Entertainment Weekly, Michael Giltz

Shepard, who seems a scholarly figure as well as a refined one, writes with epigrammatic leanness in this book. His Murnau is at the center of a moodily reconstructed historical world in which the themes of artistic exploration, politics, war, fidelity and homosexuality mingle in a broth of concealment and alienation. -- The New York Times, Richard Bernstein

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