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Author:

Kalder, Daniel, 1974- author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Henry Holt and Company,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xvi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Dictators as authors--History.
Revolutionary literature--Authorship.

Notes:

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.

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.

ISBN:

1627793429
9781627793421

OCLC:

(OCoLC)978287545

LCCN:

2017009633

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

XAPE737 -- Shenandoah Public Library (Shenandoah)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)