Dictator Literature - A History of Despots Through Their Writing

Klappentext The much-overlooked literary output of Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein and more gets held up to scrutiny in this humorous and revealing study, analysing the dictatorial character from an original and enlightening slant. Zusammenfassung A tour of the merciless leaders who inflicted their books upon society! featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler! Mao and many more

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'Daniel Kalder has slogged his way through the 20th century's "Krakatoa-like eruption of despotic verbiage" so you don't have to: from Lenin to Mao to Kim Jong-il and Saddam Hussein, via Turkmenbashi's outrageous Book of the Soul, once required reading for driving tests in Turkmenistan. Kalder's dispatches from "the transnational empire of ultra-boredom" are not only very funny, they also form a quirky, pacey guide to recent world history.'
Sunday Times, Books of the Year

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Kalder, Kalder Daniel
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2018
• EAN: 9781786070586
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-058-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political leaders & leadership, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Political leaders and leadership, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet