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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
Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the genreStalin, Mussolini, and Khomeini among themproduced theoretical works, spiritual manifestos, poetry, memoirs, and even the occasional romance novel and established a literary tradition of boundless tedium that continues to this day.
How did the production of literature become central to the running of regimes? What do these books reveal about the dictatorial soul? And how can books and literacy, most often viewed as inherently positive, cause immense and lasting harm? Putting daunting research to revelatory use, Daniel Kalder asks and brilliantly answers these questions.
Marshalled upon the beleaguered shelves of The Infernal Library are the books and commissioned works of the centurys most notorious figures. Their words led to the deaths of millions. Their conviction in the significance of their own thoughts brooked no argument. It is perhaps no wonder then, as Kalder argues, that many dictators began their careers as writers.
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To Leon and Annie Henderson
The Infernal Library is the result of many years labor and research, and along the way a number of fine people helped me take it from the realm of implausible ideas and into reality. To make a book like this requires the support of people with vision, and these are in short supply in any age. I was fortunate enough to find several.
First I must thank Sarah Crown, the inspired ex-editor of the Guardian s online book pages who accepted my proposal for a series of blogs about books by dictators, thus setting in motion the chain of events that brought this book into being. Little did I know what I was letting myself in for. Then I must thank Aaron Schlechter, who not only connected me with agent extraordinaire Jim Rutman, but also planted a vital seed at Holt. Jim made me think deeply about the ultimate form and content of The Infernal Library during the proposal stage, and so prevented much wailing and gnashing of teeth once work began in earnest. Not only that, but he expertly steered it into the hands of Sarah Bowlin, who proved to be an enthusiastic and sympathetic editor. Michael Signorelli picked up the baton from Sarah when she departed for the West Coast and did sterling work preparing this book for the world. In addition, thanks go out also to Jim Gill at United Agents; Alex Christophi and Jon Bentley-Smith at OneWorld; Mike Harpley and Henry Jeffries, both formerly of OneWorld; not to mention Brian Egan; Kanyin Ajayi; Kelly S. Too; the scholar and gentleman Mr. Nik White; and Camilla Hornby, who was so instrumental in launching my career as an author over a decade ago now.
But wait, theres more:
All of these people helped make The Infernal Library a reality, even if a few of them were not aware at the time: Marc Bennetts, Erin Osterhaus, Lenka Duskova, Kacper Pobocki, Piotr Siemion, Masha Timofeeva, Ed Nawotka, Vadim Staklo, Victoria MacArthur, Andrew Gauld, Scott Stein, Sema Balaman, Alptekin Tanir, Joe Davies, Mariano Mamertino, Marc Adler, Semyon Stankevich, Masha Lipman, Sandy Carson, Craig Borowski, Daniel Harris, Nancy Humphries, Nathaniel Humphries, Joy Humphries, David Humphries, Roy Humphries, Elizabeth Humphries. There are too many people to name from my time spent living in Moscow; I thank them. Likewise I am grateful to the Star Coffee Co. of Round Rock, Texas, and the staff of the libraries at the University of Texas, Austin. Finally, my family showed extraordinary patience as I entombed myself in the study of the worst books in the world. Now it really is done.
AustinLeanderGeorgetownRound Rock, 20092017.
Amen.
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Achaemenid Empire
Afghanistan
Afinogenov, Alexander
Aflaq, Michel
Against the First Encirclement Campaign (Mao)
Agnew, Spiro
Ahmad, Muhammed (Mahdi)
Akayev, Askar
Akhalteke: Our Pride and Glory (Berdymukhammedov)
Al-Azhar University
Albania
Alexander II, tsar of Russia
Alexander III, tsar of Russia
Alexander the Great
Algeria
Althusser, Louis
Amann, Max
Amanullah, king of Afghanistan
America Reaps the Thorns Its Rulers Sowed in the World (Hussein)
Amin, Idi
Analects (Confucius)
And Quiet Flows the Don (Sholokhov)
Andropov, Yuri
Anglo-American Threat to Albania, The (Hoxha)
anti-Semitism
Anxiety of Influence, The (Bloom)
April 15 Literary Production Group
April Theses (Lenin)
Arabian Nights, The
Arabic language
Arab nationalism
Arab Spring
Aragon, Louis
Argentina
Aristotle
Armenians
Armistice (1918)
Art of War, The (Sun)
Aryans
Assad, Bashar al
Atatrk, Mustafa Kemal
At the Crossroads (Salazar)
Austria
Austro-Hungary
Avanti! (newspaper)
Avvenire dei Lavoratori, L (newspaper)
Avesta
Baath Party
Babaevsky, Semyon
Baboeuf, Franois-Nol
Bactria
Bakr, Ahmed Hassan al
Bakunin, Mikhail
Balabanoff, Angelica
Balilla group
Ballard, J. G.
Baltics
Balzac, Honor de
Bangladesh
Banna, Hassan al
Barnstone, Willis
Barzini, Luigi
Batista, Fulgencio
Bavarian Soviet Republic
Bay of Pigs invasion
Bedny, Demyan
Beijing General Knitting Mill
Belarus
Belgium
Benedict XVI, Pope
Benito Mussolini Without Fascism (Caliandro)
Berdymukhammedov, Gurbanguly
Berezovsky, Boris
Berg, David
Berlin Wall, fall of
Bernstein, Eduard
Bhumibol, king of Thailand
Bierut, Bolesaw
Bird of Happiness, The (Berdymukhammedov)
Bismarck, Otto von
Black Book of Communism, The
Black Cloud
Black Hundreds
Black Panthers
Black Ravens
Blackshirts
Blair, Tony
Blake, William
Bloody Sunday
Bogdanov, Alexander
Bohemia
Bolivia
Bolshevik Central Committee
Bolshevik magazine
Bolshevik Revolution
Bolsheviks. See also Soviet Communist Party
Bombard the Headquarters (Mao)
Book of Sale, The (Khomeini)
Borges, Jorge Luis
Boroujerdi, Ayatollah
Bosworth, R. J. B.
Braga, Tefilo
Bragaglia, Anton
Brazil
Brdzola (newspaper)
Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut)
Brecht, Bertolt
Brezhnev, Galina
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich
Britain
Brodsky, Joseph
Building the Future (Karimov)
Bukharin, Nikolai
Bulgakov, Mikhail
Bulgaria
Bund
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (film)
Caliandro, Piero
Cambodia
Canada
Caporetto, Battle of
Cardinals Mistress, The (Mussolini)
Carson, Rachel
Castro, Fidel
Castro, Ral
Catechism of a Revolutionary (Nechaev and Bakunin)
Catherine the Great, empress of Russia
Catholic Church
Catholic nationalism
Caucasian Party
Caucasus
Cause of the Great Party of Comrades Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il Is Ever Victorious, The (Kim Jong-un)
Cavalier of the Gold Star (Babaevsky)
Ceauescu, Elena
Ceauescu, Nicolae
Cement (Gladkov)
censorship
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart
Chapaev (Furmanov)
Chavchavadze, Prince Ilia
Chvez, Hugo
Chekhov, Anton
Chen Boda
Chen Chao
Chernenko, Konstantin
Chernyshevsky, Nikolai
Chiang Chu-chu
Chiang Kai-shek
Child, Richard Washburn
Childhood Years, The (Hoxha)
Children of God
Chile
China
civil war
Peoples Republic founded
revolution of 191112
USSR and
Chinas Destiny (Chiang)
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
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