Koba The Dread (eBook, ePUB)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Random House (Amis, Martin) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
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.
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