That book kills him – the book within Roman Polanski’ movies

Abstract

The article is trying to rebuild the reason of books within Roman Polanski’ feature movies. Among them we can find the following: Ninth Gate and Ghost Writer. Specific meaning of the book within the movies is that it can be a code or a cipher, almost impossible to reveal. However if someone somehow finds its essence, will be blessed or sometimes cursed with unique knowledge. Polanski is very clear about movies’ characters, often they are the writers, librarians, scientists, antiquarians or just art hotheads.