Burning BooksSpringer, 21.05.2008 - 221 Seiten This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning captured the popular imagination. It explores how embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural history, and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
1 The Fear of Books | 9 |
2 The Burning of the Books | 31 |
3 The Library of the Burned Books | 49 |
4 To Hell with Culture | 73 |
5 Swing Theyre Burning Books | 97 |
6 Beauty for Ashes | 118 |
7 Funeral Pyres | 140 |
The Path of Cinders | 160 |
Notes | 171 |
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Alfred Kantorowicz American Archives attacks authors Auto-da-Fé banned Berlin bonfire book burning bookfires British Brown Book Bücherverbrennung Burned Books Burned the Books burning of books catalogue censorship collection commented Communist concluded contemporary critics Cultural Losses denazification described Despite destroyed destruction edition editor Ernst Toller especially essay Estreicher Europe event example exile famous fascism Figure film fire flames German Gerschom Scholem Goebbels Gollancz Heinrich Mann Hirschfeld Hitler Holocaust Memorial Museum Janet Flanner Jewish Joseph Roth Koestler Left Review letter Library Journal literary literature London looting Louvain MacLeish MFAA Mortal Storm National Socialism National Socialist Nazi Nazi Germany noted novel occupation Offenbach official Paris photograph political propaganda protest published pulping pyre quote Reichstag Reichstag fire restitution rhetoric Roth salvage scene Society Soviet speech story Swastika Night symbol Three Guineas United States Holocaust University Press utopian wartime Willi Münzenberg Woolf World writing wrote York