The Totalitarian Experience

Informationen zum Autor Tzvetan Todorov 's books include The Conquest of America , Imperfect Garden , The New World Disorder , Memory as a Remedy for Evil , and Torture and the War on Terror , the latter two also published by Seagull Books. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago. She has published over twenty translations, including J. M. G. Le Clézio's The Mexican Dream and Roland Barthes's Incidents , the latter also published by Seagull Books. Klappentext Personal essays recount Todorov's experiences with and understanding of different kinds of totalitarianism.-- Zusammenfassung Recounts the author's own experiences with totalitarianism in his native Bulgaria! offering a historical look at communism. This title reveals the essence of totalitarian ideology! the characteristics of daily life under communism! and the irony of democratic messianism.

Product details

• Authors: Tzvetan Todorov, Tzvetan/ Fagan Todorov
• Assisted by: Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9780857420138
• ISBN: 978-0-85742-013-8
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Seagull Books; French List; French List
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education