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Koba The Dread
Engelsk Paperback
Koba The Dread
Engelsk Paperback

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Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis''s celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible.

The author''s father, Kingsley Amis, was ''a Comintern dogsbody'' (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and later in life his closest friend, was Robert Conquest, whose book The Great Terror was second only to Solzhenitsyn''s The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR. Amis''s remarkable memoir explores these connections.

Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere ''statistic''. Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin''s aphorism.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780099438021
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
009943802X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
4 sep 2003
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
130mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
4 sep 2003
Forfatter(e):
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