TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kalder,Daniel
TI  - The infernal library: on dictators, the books they wrote, and other catastrophes of literacy 
SN  - 9781627793421 (hardcover)
AV  - JC 495 K14i 2018
U1  - 321.9 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Henry Holt and Company
KW  - Dictatorships
KW  - History
KW  - Dictators as authors
KW  - Revolutionary literature
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Dictaduras
KW  - Historia
KW  - Dictadores como autores
KW  - Literatura revolucionaria
KW  - Autoría
KW  - Dictators' writings
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -