Kalder, Daniel,  1974- <br/><br/>
The infernal library :  on dictators, their books, and other catastrophes of literacy / 
Daniel Kalder. 
 - First edition. 
 - pages cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781627793421 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017009633 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dictatorship--History.<br/>Dictators as authors--History.<br/>Revolutionary literature--Authorship.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Dictators' writings 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC495  / .K29 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>321.9