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Burning Books (Hardcover, New)
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Burning Books (Hardcover, New)
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The Nazi burning of the books in 1933 was one of the most infamous
political spectacles of the twentieth century. In Berlin and all
over Germany, Nazi officials and students organized elaborate
parades and bonfires to mark their embrace of Hitler's new
government. Book burning has since become the symbol of any
oppressive regime, and a modern taboo. As Heinrich Heine is often
quoted: 'Where one burns books, one will soon burn people'.
This original and provocative new work examines the impact of these
fires, concentrating on the years between the Nazi outrages and the
publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, a period in
which book burning took hold of the popular imagination. Much more
than simply the study of a single shocking event, "Burning Books"
explores how deeply embedded the myths of book burning have become
in our cultural and literary history, and illustrates the enduring
appeal of a great cleansing bonfire.
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