The crimes of tyrants against their people have been well documented, but what of their crimes against literature? Theoretical works, spiritual manifestos, poetry collections, memoirs and even romance novels - what relationship do these books have to their despotic authors' other spheres of action?
>> How did Kalder come to write this book?
>> Tradition and the individual tyrant.
>> Why dictators write.
>> Can Saddam Hussein be considered a novelist?
>> Is The Rukhnama Turkmenistan's holy book?
>> Not every book gets its own statue.
>> On translating Stalin, the poet.
>> Moving closer to the dictators.
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