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Item Category 2: Paperback
Record 493 of 61953

Author:
Ings, Simon, author
Imprint:
London : The Bridge Street Press, 2025.
Collation:
368 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.
Summary:
An intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence. Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose poetry became a blueprint for fascism in Italy. Maxim Gorky, dramatist of the working class and Stalin's cheerleader. Joseph Goebbels, a hopeless novelist but, under Hitler, an inspired propagandist. Ding Ling whose every story served the Maoist regime that kept her imprisoned for years. Not one of them was suited to vast undertakings. All four nursed extravagant visions of the future, and believed they were vital to its realisation. Each was lured to the centre of political action. Each established a dangerous and damaging relationship with a notorious dictator. And when writers and rulers find a use for each other, the consequences can be shattering for us all.
ISBN:
9780349128597 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
809.933581
LC Class:
PN51
Local Class:
809.93358
Language:
English
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BRN:
4046025
Bookmark Link:
https://aberdeencity.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/KIDS/BIBENQ?BRN=4046025

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LocationCollectionCall NumberStatus/Desc
Central Lending Library
Adult Non-Fiction
809.93358
Paperback
  • Onloan - Due: 20 May 2025