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The Literature of Oppression: Part 1
“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.” So said Voltaire in the eighteenth century. Since then, the world has seen the publication of Mao’s...
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The Literature of Oppression: Part 2
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler Hitler has started to show his face again of late. In Athens last year, two protesters staged a street-play on the occasion of the visit of the German chancellor, Angela...
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The Literature of Oppression: Part 3
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” Ray Bradbury makes a valid point: if you’re not going to read a book, you may as well burn it. And yet, we should probably...
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The Literature of Oppression: Part 4
Escape to Hell by Muammar Gaddafi Before he was trapped in a sewage pipe in the desert, buggered with a length of steel piping and killed by a mob holding camera-phones. Before the female bodyguards,...
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