by Martin Amis · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099438021
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«Koba the Dread» is Martin Amis's historical essay on Stalin and communism, published by Vintage in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Martin Amis examines the indulgence of Western intellectuals toward communism and traces a portrait of Stalin, 'Koba the Terrible'. The book starts from the communist militancy of his father, Kingsley Amis, and the friendship with Robert Conquest, author of 'The Great Terror', to refute Stalin's phrase about deaths as a statistic.
It is the work following Martin Amis's memoirs 'Experience', published on September 4, 2003.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century history, Stalinism, and political and intellectual biography.
Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize. Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
