Dictator Literature. A History Of Despots Through Their Writing

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Oneworld
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 379 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A history of the crimes of the 20th centurys most notorious dictators would fill libraries. Countless authors have dedicated decades of their lives to minutely detailing the murders, famines, wars and other atrocities perpetrated by great beasts of political horror such as Hitler, Stalin and Mao. And yet one area of dictatorial infamy has been shockingly neglected: the crimes of tyrants against literature.Almost every dictator has been a prolific author, and their books occupied the space in their societies that is usually allotted to sacred texts. To understand historys demons and the millions of souls they delighted in torturing, we must engage with their books. A journey to the end of the literary night, combining mind-bending explorations of the avant-garde of boredom with history, politics and biography and leavened with a darkly humorous wit Dictator Literature is the true story of the worst books in the world.

ISBN: 9781786070586