Description
Power literally disintegrates its bearers, it has a rotting effect – from a rebellious warrior devoted to the truth emerges a usurper who abandons the moral imperative of truthfulness and simple common sense. The rebellious Mňačko, always acting according to his best conscience, describes how, from the peak of power, the resolve to benefit the people disappears and is replaced by the pursuit of personal gain, an obsession with oneself. An unfree regime that persecutes its critics leads the powerful to wrongdoing – our present day provides dozens, hundreds of illustrative examples of this. The extraordinarily timeless and more than instructive novel How Power Tastes then follows their entire series in all positions, directions, and layers of life. What did the author, whose West praised him as the "Czechoslovak Solzhenitsyn" and the "Orwell of socialism," say? This: "Fanaticism for a good cause can easily turn into oppression and crime."
Information
Author: Mňačko Ladislav
Publication date: May 23, 2024
Manufacturer: LEDA spol. s r. o.
Genres: Novels, World fiction, Books, Fiction
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 272
ISBN/EAN: 9788073357221