Dictator Literature - Daniel Kalder Literacy, long upheld as a standard bearer for progress, is not always a force for good. Had Stalins mother never sent him to the seminary he never would have learned to read and so never discovered the works of Marx or Lenin. Instead he probably would have ended up like his father a cobbler by trade and a drunk by vocation. Throughout the twentieth century dictators subjected captive audiences to soul-killing prose on a massive scale. They published theoretical works, spiritual manifestos, poetry collections, memoirs and even romance novels. Armed with nothing but a darkly humorous wit, Daniel Kalder journeys long into the literary night to discover what their tomes reveal about the dictatorial soul. From the staggeringly vile and incompetent Mein Kampf, and the miracles wrought by former librarian Maos Little Red Book, up to the ongoing exploits of North Koreas Kim dynasty, Dictator Literature is an unforgettable look at the power of the pen. z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature | Nonfiction | Biography od One Word Publication naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz! ‘The writer is the engineer of the human soul,’ claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi’s Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in Turkmenistan), not to mention Stalin’s own poetry. Certainly, to be considered great, a dictator must write, and write a lot. Mao had his Little Red Book, Mussolini and Saddam Hussein their romance novels, Kim Jong-il his treatise on the art of film, Hitler his hate-filled tracts. What do these texts reveal about their authors, the worst people imaginable? And how did they shape twentieth-century history? Dictator Literature - Daniel Kalder od authora Daniel Kalder a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz