Bibliograph

The infernal library, on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy, Daniel Kalder

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The infernal library, on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy, Daniel Kalder

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The infernal library

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

978287545

Responsibility statement

Daniel Kalder

Sub title

on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy

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."--Jacket

Table Of 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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