Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Kalder, Daniel, 1974-

Publication

• New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xvi, 379 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm

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"-- From book jacket.

Subject

• Dictators as authors > History
• Revolutionary literature > Authorship

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 18-2774

ISBN

• 9781627793421
• 1627793429

LCCN

2017009633

OCLC

978287545

Author

Kalder, Daniel, 1974- author.

Title

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

Publisher

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2774