TY - SER
AU - Daniel Kalder
CY - New York, NY
LA - English
N1 - <p>Examines writings of 20th century dictators.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Introduction: Tradition and the individual tyrant</li><li>Phase 1: The dictator's canon Lenin Stalin Mussolini Hitler Mao</li><li>Phase 2: Tyranny and mutation Small demons Catholic action Disembraining machines Eastern approaches Dead letters Another green world</li><li>Phase 3: 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</li><li>Phase 4: Death is not the end Conclusion</li></ul>
PB - Henry, Holt & Co
PP - New York, NY
PY - 2018
SN - 9781627793421
EP - 379 pp.
TI - The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
ER -