Infernal Library

Daniel Kalder

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2019

1250181607 / 9781250181602

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Named a Best Book of the Year by The Times and The Sunday Times'A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown.'-The Washington PostA darkly humorous 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.Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the genre-Stalin, Mussolini, and Khomeini among them-produced theoretical works, spiritual manifestos, poetry, memoirs, and even the occasional romance novel and established a literary tradition of boundless tedium that continues to this day.How did the production of literature become central to the running of regimes What do these books reveal about the dictatorial soul And how can books and literacy, most often viewed as inherently positive, cause immense and lasting harm Putting daunting research to revelatory use, Daniel Kalder asks and brilliantly answers these questions. Marshalled upon the beleaguered shelves of The Infernal Library are the books and commissioned works of the century's most notorious figures. Their words led to the deaths of millions. Their conviction in the significance of their own thoughts brooked no argument. It is perhaps no wonder then, as Kalder argues, that many dictators began their careers as writers.…

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Titolo
Infernal Library
Autore
Daniel Kalder
Editore
St. Martins Press-3PL
Anno di pubblicazione
2019
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1250181607
ISBN 13
9781250181602
Peso dell'articolo
644 grammi
Dimensioni
229x152x24 mm

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