5/7/2023 0 Comments The prestige novel![]() ![]() Priest was one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 1983, but has never risen to the prominence of contemporaries such as Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. After reading the novel, a genuinely uncanny take on the venerable sci-fi concept of the invisible man, I agreed, and couldn't understand why I'd never come across him before. Several years ago a friend gave me a copy of The Glamour and, with the faint air of sedition that sometimes accompanies such gifts, told me that here was a brilliant writer who was shamefully under-appreciated. Priest is the kind of writer it's easy to feel proprietorial about. I wasn't sure I liked the idea of all those movie people getting their hands on it. The Prestige is a book I love, so I couldn't wait to see it translated onto the screen: to admire the gloomy music-hall Victoriana of the setting watch Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman embody the duelling conjurers Borden and Angier find out, in short, what the director Christopher Nolan would make of Priest's novel (his tricksy, sinister films suggested he was perfect for the job). When I heard they were making a film of The Prestige, Christopher Priest's novel about feuding 19th-century stage magicians, my first response was a fan's excitement. ![]() Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson in Christopher Nolan's adaptation ![]()
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