![]() ![]() War, fidelity and homosexuality mingle in a broth of concealment and alienation. His Murnau is at the center of a moodily reconstructed historical world in which the themes of artistic exploration, politics, Shepard, who seems a scholarly figure as well as a refined one, writes with epigrammatic leanness in this book. Own solitude, his self-exclusion and guilt over the evil that he suspects lurks within himself. ![]() It is a life in which Nosferatu - "Doesn't the name sound like the midnight call of a death bird?" - stands for Murnau's Shepard has now expanded that story into a novel telling the fuller imagined life of the German filmmaker. Murnau when he was making his pioneering silent film of the Dracula legend. Ne of the stories in "Batting Against Castro," Jim Shepard's highly praised collection, was "Nosferatu," an imagined journal 'Nosferatu': The Imagined Life of a Film Pioneer By RICHARD BERNSTEIN 'Nosferatu': The Imagined Life of a Film Pioneer ![]()
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