A Poor Despot Descends to Hell
A Poor Despot Descends to Hell

On the Writing and Thinking Styles of Muammar al-Gaddafi

Author(s): Heiner Lohmann
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Literary Texts, Sociology
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Muammar al-Gaddafi;Writings
Summary/Abstract: If we follow the lyrical alter ego who intones the above sentences penned for him by the real despot Muammar al-Gaddafi, then despots are a political species, defenseless, persecuted, and threatened in their existence.What is more, in the story “Escape to Hell” which begins with the passage just quoted, it is never once mentioned what is so “shameful” about the tyranny of an individual. Tyrants are not tyrants at all there: they are innocent,and they do not oppress others; they are the oppressed ones.

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