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Kalder, Daniel, 1974- author.
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Dictators as authors -- History.
Revolutionary literature -- Authorship.
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The infernal library...
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The infernal library : on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy / Daniel Kalder.
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Kalder, Daniel, 1974- author.
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
Subjects
Dictators as authors -- History.
Revolutionary literature -- Authorship.
ISBN:
9781627793421 (hardcover) :
1627793429 (hardcover)
Description:
xvi, 379 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Introduction: Tradition and the individual tyrant -- Phase I: The dictator's canon -- Lenin -- Stalin -- Mussolini -- Hitler -- Mao -- Phase II: Tyranny and mutation -- Small demons -- Catholic action -- Disembraining machines -- Eastern approaches -- Dead letters -- Another green world -- Phase III: Dissolution and madness -- Midnight in the garden of ultraboredom -- North Korea: the metafictions of Kim Jong-il -- Cuba: Castro's maximum verbiage -- Iraq: the historical romances of Saddam Hussein -- Post-Soviet: Comrade Zoroaster -- Turkmenistan: post-everything -- Phase IV: Death is not the end -- Conclusion.
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"A harrowing tour of 'dictator literature' in the twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse." -- From book jacket.
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Kailua-Kona Public Library
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