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The School for Dictators

By إريش كستنر

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2019

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When a president departs from the speech prepared by those who control him, his handlers decide to replace him with one of twelve doubles trained to reproduce every gesture of leadership. But someone is preparing a coup against the system of substitutes. Written after the rise of European fascism, Erich Kästner’s sharply comic play exposes dictatorship as a school of performance, where power survives by replacing persons while preserving the machinery behind them. Originally written in German as “Die Schule der Diktatoren”, the work appears here in an Arabic translation by Samir Grees.

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