Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

by Simon Ings

Book Overview

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence.

Maurice Barr s, who first wielded the politics of identity. Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose poetry became a blueprint for fascism. Maxim Gorky, dramatist of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349128561
• ISBN13: 9780349128566
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Bridge Street Press
• Length: 368 Pages