Ismaîl Kadaré
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About the Author
Ismail Kadare is the most prominent of contemporary Albanian writers. He has written poetry, short stories, literary criticism, and seven novels. His works have been translated and published in more than two dozen countries. An internationally known figure, he has visited and lectured in many mostrar mais countries. He was also a representative to Albania's People's Assembly. In 1990 Kadare left Albania for Paris where he became openly dissident. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Ismaîl Kadaré
Onenigheid aan de top een mysterieus telefoongesprek tussen Stalin en Pasternak (2018) 19 exemplares
Dante, l'incontournable, ou brève histoire de l'Albanie avec Dante Alighieri : essai (2006) — Autor — 6 exemplares
Ca pika shiu ranë mbi qelq 3 exemplares
Mauvaise saison sur l'Olympe: tragédie de Prométhée et d'un groupe de divinités en quatorze tableaux (1998) 2 exemplares
MOSMARREVESHJA 2 exemplares
Mengjeset ne kafe Rostand 1 exemplar
VEPRA 7 1 exemplar
VEPRA 6 1 exemplar
KOHE BARBARE 1 exemplar
VEPRA 5 1 exemplar
VEPRA 3 1 exemplar
KALORESI LAKURIQ 1 exemplar
VEPRA 2 1 exemplar
VEPRA 1 1 exemplar
Um jantar a mais 1 exemplar
BISEDE PERMES HEKURAVE 1 exemplar
Vjedhja e gjumit mbreteror 1 exemplar
Πρόσκληση στο εργαστήρι του συγγραφεα 1 exemplar
Enderr Mashtruese 1 exemplar
O Nicho da Vergonha 1 exemplar
IKJA E SHTERGUT 1 exemplar
MJEGULLAT E TIRANES 1 exemplar
VEPRA 8 1 exemplar
VEPRA 12 1 exemplar
VEPRA 9 1 exemplar
DOSJA H 1 exemplar
HI Itamburi della pioggia: romanzo 1 exemplar
El ocaso de los dioses 1 exemplar
La menace du soleil 1 exemplar
Kadaré Ismail 1 exemplar
KRISTAL 1 exemplar
ARDHJA E MIGJENIT NE LETERSINE SHQIPE 1 exemplar
MIGJENI OSE URAGANI I NDERPRERE 1 exemplar
HIl Igenerale dell'armata morta: romanzo 1 exemplar
VEPRA 10 1 exemplar
VEPRA 20 1 exemplar
Cuestión de Locura 1 exemplar
VEPRA 18 1 exemplar
VEPRA 17 1 exemplar
VEPRA 16 1 exemplar
VEPRA 15 1 exemplar
VEPRA 13 1 exemplar
VEPRA 11 1 exemplar
VEPRA 19 1 exemplar
Vem förde hem Doruntine? 1 exemplar
2002 1 exemplar
Le Palais des Rêves 1 exemplar
Coffeehouse Days. 1 exemplar
Ëndërrime 1 exemplar
Temps barbares: de l'Albanie au Kosovo: entretiens [avec] Denis Fernandez-Récatala (1999) 1 exemplar
La Bambola 1 exemplar
Breznitë e Hankonatëve 1 exemplar
On the Lay of the Knights 1 exemplar
Emblema e dikurshme : tregime e novela 1 exemplar
Vjersha dhe poema te zgjedhura 1 exemplar
Gjëmojnë kontinentet : vjersha 1 exemplar
Stinë e mërzitshme në Olymp : tragjedia e Prometheut dhe e një grupi hyjnish në 14 dukje (2002) 1 exemplar
ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΣ Ή Ο ΑΙΩΝΙΑ ΧΑΜΕΝΟΣ 1 exemplar
Pëballë pasqyrs së një gruaje 1 exemplar
Grymma april roman 1 exemplar
Vepra Poetike 1 exemplar
Vepra 19: Legjenda e legjendave; Ardhja e Migjenit në letërsinë shqipe; Kushëriri i engjëjve; Arti si mëkat; Ra… (2007) 1 exemplar
Vepra 18: Ftesë në studio; Eskili, ky humbës i madh; Dantja i pashmangshëm; Hamleti, princi i vështirë; Don… (2007) 1 exemplar
Umbra 1 exemplar
බිඳවැටුණු වසන්තය 1 exemplar
OLU ORDUNUN GENERALI 1 exemplar
אפריל שבור 1 exemplar
De dochter van Agamemnon ; De opvolger 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Description of a Struggle: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Eastern European Writing (1994) — Contribuidor — 77 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Kadare, Ismail
- Nome legal
- Kadaré, Ismaïl
- Data de nascimento
- 1936
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Albania
- Local de nascimento
- Gjirokaster, Albania
- Locais de residência
- Paris, France
- Educação
- University of Tirane (Languages and Literature)
Gorky Institute of World Literature (Moscow) - Ocupações
- novelist
poet
journalist
Member of Parliament - Relações
- Kadare, Helena (wife)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Booker Prize (2005)
Prince of Asturias Prize (2009)
Ovid Prize (2003)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- In the fall of 1990 Ismail Kadare left Albania in a gesture of protest against the actions and policies of the Albanian government and was granted asylum in France.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 195
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 6,741
- Popularidade
- #3,632
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 274
- ISBN
- 742
- Línguas
- 30
- Marcado como favorito
- 30
translation: from Albanian by John Hodgson (2023)
OPD: 2022
format: 230-page paperback
acquired: library loan read: Mar 23-26 time reading: 4:09, 1.1 mpp
rating: 3½
genre/style: Contemporary novel theme: Booker2024
locations: Moscow 1934
about the author: An Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright, born 1936 in Gjirokastër, Albania
The first I've read from the 2024 International Booker longlist, one of several very short books on the list. The nice thing about short books is I can get through them quickly, which means I can get to them even though I haven't planned to. The problem is I can finish them before I have really figured out what it is I'm reading. That was certainly the case here.
This “novel” is Kadare thinking through a phone call between Joseph Stalin and Boris Pasternak. Stalin called Pasternak in June of 1934 and asked about the recent arrest of poet Osip Mandelstam. Pasternak, probably in a panic, apparently dodged the question. Stalin made a critical comment on how he himself would do a lot more to help his own comrades. Then he hung up, never available to Pasternak again.
Pasternak and Mandelstam, both from Jewish families, were friends and fellow poets. Their friendship seems to have survived this phone call and the wide knowledge of it. Mandelstam would die imprisoned in 1938. The reputation-smeared Pasternak would win the Nobel Prize in the 1950's.
Kadare spent time in Soviet Union in the 1960's, before he was forced to leave when the Albanian dictator, Enver Hoxha, broke with Stalin's successors. He wrote a novel about these experiences in the 1970's ([Twilight of the Eastern Gods], 1978), one of the Kadare novels that were "smuggled out" of Albania. What is semi-clear here is that Kadare relates to Pasternak. He experienced one out-of-the-blue phone call from Hoxha and found himself unable to say anything other than thank you. That is, Kadare is writing a lot about himself and his own art. The book, however, focuses on and mulls over this one phone call from several different angles. He seems to be writing about power, fear, and art, and it reads more like an inconclusive essay on these things than a novel. And it wasn't clear to me where it intended to go. Within his path, he comments on writers, bashes the communist states, and criticizes Marx for not providing guidance on how to psychologically recover from a consequences of a successful revolution.
Mainly, though, it creates for the reader some of the sense of living under the absolute power of a tyrant, the sense of being toyed with by a tyrant aware of whimsical torment he is creating but can't be hurt by. Stalin playing games with Pasternak for his own amusement echos through Pasternak's reputation and legacy.
I should have condensed all that down because I still haven't said whether the book is any good. I'm not sure how good the book is. It probably has a great deal of weight within the right context, but for me it was merely readable and curious. It's entertaining enough for Kadare and Booker completists and the curious.
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