Book Discussion: THE DIRECTOR by Daniel Kehlmann

Join us as we return to reading fiction for the third meeting of our book club! We will meet again at Wandering Leaf Brewing in St. Paul to discuss The Director by Daniel Kehlmann.

Here's a summary of the book:
"How nerve-racking to be G.W. Pabst, the 20th-century Austrian filmmaker at the center of Kehlmann’s wondrous novel. He’s an auteur stuck in Europe under Nazi rule, forced to make propaganda and benign duds for the Reich while compromising every creative principle he once stood for. “The important thing is to make art under the circumstances one finds oneself in,” Pabst murmurs at one point, winning over exactly no one. Still, Kehlmann’s complex portrait, brightened by caustic humor and memorable historical cameos (and fluidly translated from the German by Ross Benjamin), presents an intriguing test of integrity in a fracturing world."

See you then!