02499cam a2200457 i 4500 116754 116754 19846056 BJBSDDR 20230411090813.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 170727s2018 nyu 001 0deng 2017009633 9781627793421 (hardcover) 1627793429 (hardcover) DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc JC 495 K14i 2018 321.9 Kalder, Daniel, 1974- 24385 The infernal library : on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy / Daniel Kalder. First edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. xvi, 379 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. Dictatorships History. Dictators as authors History. Revolutionary literature Authorship. Dictaduras Historia 25436 Dictadores como autores 25437 Literatura revolucionaria Autoría 18837 Dictators' writings 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2022-08-23 0 JC 495 K14i 2018 00000157457 2022-08-23 00:00:00 1 2022-08-23 BK