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008 170727s2018 nyu 001 0deng
010 _a 2017009633
020 _a9781627793421 (hardcover)
020 _z9781627793438 (electronic book)
042 _apcc
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dMvI
050 0 0 _aJC495
_b.K29 2018
082 0 0 _a321.9
_223
100 1 _aKalder, Daniel,
_d1974-
245 1 4 _aThe infernal library :
_bon dictators, their books, and other catastrophes of literacy /
_cDaniel Kalder.
250 _aFirst edition.
263 _a1803
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHenry Holt and Company,
_c2018.
300 _apages cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _a 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.
650 0 _aDictatorship
_xHistory.
650 0 _aDictators as authors
_xHistory.
650 0 _aRevolutionary literature
_xAuthorship.
653 0 _aDictators' writings
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