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The infernal library : on dictators, their books, and other catastrophes of literacy / Daniel Kalder.

By: Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781627793421 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.9 23
LOC classification:
  • JC495 .K29 2018
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks JC495 .K29 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001428605

Includes index.

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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