The infernal library : on dictators, their books, and other catastrophes of literacy / Daniel Kalder.
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: pages cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781627793421 (hardcover)
- 321.9 23
- JC495 .K29 2018
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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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