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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kalder, Daniel, 1974- author.     Subjects     Dictators as authors -- History.     Revolutionary literature -- Authorship.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kalder, Daniel, 1974- author.       by title:      The infernal library...         MARC Display

The infernal library : on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy / Daniel Kalder. by 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 321.9 Ka Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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