Koba the dread : laughter and the twenty million

著者

• Amis, Martin

書誌事項

Koba the dread : laughter and the twenty million

Martin Amis

Vintage, c2003

注記

Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2002

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA72000553
• ISBN:
  • 009943802X
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 306 p., [8] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 件名:
  • BLSH : Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
  • LCSH : Heads of state -- Soviet Union
  • LCSH : Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936
  • LCSH : Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953