Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
Martin Amis
9781400032204
ISBN 13: 9781400032204
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover
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The sequel to the author's acclaimed memoir Experience describes the role of communism in mid-twentieth-century thought and its influence on his own family as he reflects on Stalin, his impact on the Soviet Union, and his legacy.
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"Meritorious addition to the bulging shelf of apologia by writers on the noncommunist English left, worth reading by anyone interested in exploring the dark recesses of the recent past."
Kirkus, 05/01/2002
Review:"Martin Amis's book will not date, even though it might need updating. it is wise, witty and saturated with saeva indignatio [fierce indignation], the only adequate response to tyranny."
Donald Rayfield, Literary Review, September 2002
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Book Description: Random House USA Inc, United States, 2003. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Reprint. 203 x 133 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, "Koba the Dread" is the successor to Martin Amis's award-winning memoir, "Experience." "Koba the Dread" captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century -- one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginnings 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, though later reactionary in tendency, was a "Comintern dogsbody" (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and then his closest friend (after the death of the poet Philip Larkin), was Robert Conquest, our leading Sovietologist whose book of 1968, "The Great Terror," was second only to Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" in undermining the USSR. The present 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. "From the Hardcover edition.". Bookseller Inventory # AAC9781400032204 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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