La Mirada del Mal / The Gaze of Evil

Para The New York Daily Mirror era tan bonita como una cruz gamada , y para Goebbels, la artista que mejor nos entiende . En mayo de 1945, tras la derrota de la Alemania nazi, Leni Riefenstahl quema documentos, cartas y material fotogr fico en el jard n de su casa ante la inminente llegada de los americanos. Angustiada por su relaci n con Hitler y su c rculo m s ntimo, Leni rememora su pasado art stico y personal, un pasado que la convirti en la mujer m s c lebre del Tercer Reich, enla directora m s famosa del mundo y en la nica persona capaz de tutear al F hrer despu s de dirigir El triunfo de la voluntad, la pel cula sobre el VI Congreso del Partido Nacionalsocialista. De talento inequ voco, su ascenso parec a imparable, pero la Noche de los Cristales Rotos y la Segunda Guerra Mundial cuestionaron su carrera como cineasta. Su nombre qued as asociado al poder visual del nazismo y a la ambigua frontera entre arte y propaganda.

Cortejada por Mussolini y Stalin; admirada por Steven Spielberg, Ford Coppola y Quentin Tarantino; odiada por Marlene Dietrich, y elogiada por Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Andy Warhol o Mick Jagger, Leni Riefenstahl es uno de los personajes m s controvertidos del siglo XX. Fue una colaboracionista del nazismo o una v ctima m s del dictador?

Con m s de 2.000.000 de ejemplares vendidos, Reyes Monforte vuelve con la primera novela sobre Leni Riefenstahl, en la que narra desde sus inicios como bailarina hasta los sonados romances que le dieron fama de mujer independiente y libertina.La mirada del mal es un recorrido por el Berl n pecaminoso de la Rep blica Weimar, el ascenso del fascismo en Europa, la ca da del Tercer Reich y la reinvenci n de quien fue considerada los ojos de Hitler .

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The devil's filmmaker. Hitler's friend. The best filmmaker of the 20th century.

For The New York Daily Mirror, she was "as pretty as a swastika," and for Goebbels, "the artist who understands us best." In May 1945, after the defeat of Nazi Germany, Leni Riefenstahl burned documents, letters, and photographic material in her garden in anticipation of the imminent arrival of the Americans. Distressed by her relationship with Hitler and his inner circle, Leni recalls her artistic and personal past, a past that made her the most famous woman in the Third Reich, the most famous director in the world, and the only person capable of addressing the F hrer informally after directing Triumph of the Will, the film about the Sixth Congress of the National Socialist Party. With her unmistakable talent, her rise seemed unstoppable, but Kristallnacht and World War II called her career as a filmmaker into question. Her name became associated with the visual power of Nazism and the ambiguous boundaries between art and propaganda.

Courted by Mussolini and Stalin; admired by Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and Quentin Tarantino; hated by Marlene Dietrich, and praised by Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Andy Warhol, and Mick Jagger, Leni Riefenstahl is one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century. Was she a collaborator with Nazism, or just another victim of the dictator?

With more than 2,000,000 copies sold, Reyes Monforte returns with the first novel about Leni Riefenstahl, in which she recounts her beginnings as a dancer and the notorious romances that gave her a reputation as an independent and libertine woman. The Gaze of Evil is a journey through the sinful Berlin of the Weimar Republic, the rise of fascism in Europe, the fall of the Third Reich, and the reinvention of the woman who was considered "Hitler's eyes."