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Scottish author Daniel Kalder. Austin, Texas May 2021.
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Scottish author Daniel Kalder. Austin, Texas May 2021.
Dictator Literature - Daniel Kalder
Oneworld - 2018
Dictator Literature - Daniel Kalder
Oneworld 2018
The inspiration for Daniel Kalder’s book about very bad books came from watching TV one night in Moscow. Kalder saw a report from Asbagat, the capital of Turkmenistan, which had been a Soviet republic until 1991. It featured a monument, consisting of a 30ft-tall green and pink book adorned with the golden silhouette of the author’s profiled head. He was Saparmurat Niyazov, the former Communist Party general secretary, who became Turkmenbashi — “Leader of all ethnic Turkmen” — and from 1991 to 2006 president for life.
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy by Daniel Kalder
US: http://amzn.to/2FDSdpf
UK: https://amzn.to/2E990Le
There are a lot of very good, very long books out there: Middlemarch, War and Peace, Don Quixote, the Neapolitan Novels. And then there are the very long books you probably won’t ever want to read, like Leonid Brezhnev’s memoirs, Saddam Hussein’s hackneyed romance novels, or the Kim family’s film theory. This show is about that kind of very long book, and the man who decided to read all of them: Daniel Kalder, who joins us on the show to talk about his journey through The Infernal Library and what these books tell us about the dictatorial soul, assuming there is one.
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Viajando em livros, pt 2
Viajando em livros, pt 2
A literatura de viagem é essencial para quem viaja, e reconfortante é difícil viajar.
Outro dia num grupo que sigo no Facebook alguém comentou a surreal alta do dólar. O assunto é frequente entre viajantes não só no Brasil, mas também na Europa, onde o euro também tem perdido para o dólar. “Como é que você estão fazendo para viajar?”. Bom, tirando os muitos ricos, os que viajam a trabalho ou quem…
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What happens when you feed profoundly American tropes into the psyche of a German or a Frenchman? Do you get something wild and interesting, or derivative dullness? Does the reader receive startling new insights — or merely a glimpse of a distorted looking-glass America?
One-Armed Gunslingers and Germans in Teepees: A Brief Guide to the Euro-Western by Daniel Kalder
