Kalder, Daniel,  1974- <br/><br/>
The infernal library :  on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy / 
Daniel Kalder. 
 - First edition. 
 - xvi, 379 pages :   illustrations, portraits ;   25 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Tradition and the individual tyrant<br/>Phase I: The dictator's canon. Lenin ; Stalin ; Mussolini ; Hitler ; Mao<br/>Phase II: Tyranny and mutation. Small demons ; Catholic action ; Disembraining machines ; Eastern approaches ; Dead letters ; Another green world<br/>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<br/>Phase IV: Death is not the end<br/>Conclusion 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781627793421 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017009633 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dictatorships--History.<br/>Dictators as authors--History.<br/>Revolutionary literature--Authorship.<br/>Dictaduras --Historia <br/>Dictadores como autores <br/>Literatura revolucionaria--Autoría
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Dictators' writings 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC 495  / K14i 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>321.9