書名 : The infernal library :on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy /
紀錄類型 : 書目-語言資料,印刷品: 單行本
正題名[資料類型標示]/作者 : The infernal library :Daniel Kalder.
其他題名 : on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy /
作者 : Kalder, Daniel,
版本項 : First edition.
出版者 : New York :Henry Holt and Company,2018.
面頁冊數 : xvi, 379 p. :ill., portraits ;25 cm.
內容註 : 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.
標題 : Dictators as authors
ISBN : 9781627793421 (hbk.) :
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index.
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520 $aA 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.
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