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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 379 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781627793421 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.9
LOC classification:
  • JC 495 K14i 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
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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JC 495 K14i 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000157457

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

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.

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