Fame A Novel in Nine Episodes

Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great?  But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help you then?  What if someone got hold of your cell phone? What if they spoke to your girlfriends, your agent, your director, and started making decisions for you? And worse, what if no one believed you were you anymore? When you saw a look-alike acting your roles for you, what would you do?   And what if one day you realized your magnum opus, like everything else you’d ever written, was a total waste of time, empty nonsense? What would you do next? Would your audience of seven million people keep you going? Or would you lose the capacity to keep on doing it?  Fame and fa...

Author: Kehlmann Daniel
ISBN: 9780307378712
Year of publication: 2010
Translator: Janeway Carol Brown
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 141
Reading time: 2 h. 21 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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