Embarrassment of Tyrannies 25 Years of Index on Censorship

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ISBN: 9780807614464

ISBN-10: 0807614467

ISBN-13: 9780807614464

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Authors: W. L. Webb, Rose Bell

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The writings, many by such renowned authors as Nadine Gordimer, Arthur Miller, and Julio Cortazar, cover the issues with careful even-handedness. Ariel Dorfman writes from the experience of the Chilean dictatorship and imagines a training course for salesmen of torture equipment; Alexander Solzhenitsyn has a fragment of poetry recalling his own period in a labor camp in Kazakhstan; Wale Soginka writes powerfully in defense of Salman Rushie'”a truly disturbing piece. A great tribute to Index 's achievements, this collection celebrates without being self-congratulatory. Its contributors provide elegant testimony to the human spirit's capacity for survival and its continuing struggle for…

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List price: $15.95
Publisher: George Braziller Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Rose Bell has been with Index on Censorship since 1991 and is currently its Production Editor.



Preface



An embarrassment of tyrannies



Letter to Europeans



With concern for those not free



And you, candle



Poems



'God keep me from going mad'



Interview with Joseph Brodsky



A writer's freedom



A cup of coffee with my interrogator



Cemetery of words



The sin of power



Distractions



Apocalypse at Solentiname



Pale browns and yellows



Manuscripts banned and destroyed



Variation on an eternal theme



Open letter to President Husak



A convenient illusion



Why should music be censorable?



Madness



Last chance?



In memoriam



'When they beat us, we suffer'



A simple solution



Two poems



File 2819


My temptation



Trademark territory



So where do we go for freedom?



Jihad for freedom



The train of wonders



Here is the patriotically censored news



LOW warspeak



Suffer the little children



The Lubianka's hidden treasure: an interview with Vitaly Shentalinsky



From wimps to warriors



Should Index be above the battle?



China is a world problem



Not a special case



Gentle reader



Goodnight, Croatian writers



A new map of censorship



Sweet home of liberty



Standing in the queue



The Bosnian bull



The last despot and the end of Nigerian history?



Daring to speak one's name



The dark cloud over Turkey



A bright, shining hell



Rewriting history



Beyond 2001



No end in sight



Market takes all



After Chernobyl: confusion and deceit



A liquidator's story



Bosnian diary: Who goes home?



No room for books



Urbicides, massacres, common graves



Astrakhan on the Kremlin towers



The truth, the whole truth and nothing but...



Articles of faith



Cost of a miracle



Whatever happened to Soviet childhood?