Ismail Kadare

A Dictator Calls

Übersetzer: Hodgson, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In June 1934, Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak and they spoke about the arrest of Osip Mandelstam. A telephone call from the dictator was not something necessarily relished, and in the complicated world of literary politics it would have provided opportunities for potential misunderstanding and profound trouble. But this was a call one could not ignore. Stalin wanted to know what Pasternak thought of the idea that Mandelstam had been arrested. Ismail Kadare explores the afterlife of this phone call using accounts of witnesses, reporters, writers such as Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova, wives, mistresses, biographers, and even archivists of the KGB. The results offer a meditation on power and political structure, and how literature and authoritarianism construct themselves in plain sight of one another. Kadare's reconstruction becomes a gripping mystery, as if true crime is being presented in mosaic"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Catapult
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 124mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9781640096080
• ISBN-10: 1640096086
• Artikelnr.: 67207801

Autorenporträt

Ismail Kadare

Rezensionen

One of Europe's most decorated authors... Seasoned fans [of Kadare] will be enthralled by this very personal meditation on the circumstances in which, against the odds, he [Pasternak] still managed to thrive Sunday Times