The infernal library : on dictators, their books, and other catastrophes of literacy
The infernal library : on dictators, their books, and other catastrophes of literacy
Place:
New York
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Company
Phys descriptions:
xvi, 379 p.
Date published:
2018
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Subject:
ISBN:
978-1-62779-342-1
Call No:
347.781.5 KAL
Abstract:
"A harrowing tour of 'dictator literature' in the twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse."--Jacket
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CITATION: Kalder, Daniel. The infernal library : on dictators, their books, and other catastrophes of literacy . New York : Henry Holt and Company , 2018. - Available at: https://library.au.int/frinfernal-library-dictators-their-books-and-other-catastrophes-literacy