ARGONAUT BOOKS

A wonderful book about complicity and the complicity of art. It's also funny, and brilliant.ZADIE SMITH, author of The Fraud, via the Ezra Klein ShowDaniel Kehlmann is shockingly brilliant, a writer of extraordinary range and grace. At times absurdist, at times horrifyingly realist, The Director asks where the moral duty of the artist resides, and how the narcissism of the artistic project can bleed into complicity.Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster WildsThe Director is engrossing and luminous, an epic act of historical imagination and an intimate parable about moral compromise and the seducti...Read More