Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor...
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Author: Martin Amis
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Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Amis, Martin

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

€25,39

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

€25,39
Author: Martin Amis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/09/2003
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781400032204


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/21/2003 pg. 32
Kliatt 03/01/2004 pg. 37

About the Author
Martin Amis is the bestselling author of several books, including London Fields, Money, The Information, and Experience. He lives in London.


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