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Jul 1, 2024 · Ismail Kadare, the most celebrated Albanian author in a generation, was a prolific writer who often found ways to criticize the country’s totalitarian state, despite the risks involved....
- Amelia Nierenberg
Mar 11, 2024 · Synopsis. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin reportedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of Pasternak’s fellow Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam – a man who had expressed criticism of the Soviet regime.
His latest book is a study of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, Les Misérables. Reading Kadare, David Bellos finds the whole world in literary form: a masterful blend of myth and folklore with portraits of modern minds and local realities—plus a cunning, wry kind of humor.
Dec 12, 2010 · The novelist Ismail Kadare was born in Gjirokastër in 1936, and those words are from the great novel that he drew out of his boyhood experiences of the war, “Chronicle in Stone,” which was...
- Broken April Ismail Kadare.
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- The General of the Dead Army Ismail Kadare.
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Doruntine or Who brought Dorontine (originally in Albanian: Kush e solli Doruntinën) is a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is based on the old Albanian legend of Constantin and Doruntine.
Jul 4, 2024 · From walks on the beach to dinner with celebrities, these snapshots offer a personal glimpse of the man behind the reputation as a giant of Balkan literature. Between 1995 and 2014, David Bellos translated from French a number of works by Ismail Kadare, Albania’s best-known novelist and poet, including The Siege, The File on H.,
