Ismail Kadare

Broschiertes Buch

Essays on World Literature

Aeschylus - Dante - Shakespeare

Übersetzer: Kokobobo, Ani

Beschreibung

"The Man Booker International-winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania's most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world literature -- Aeschylus, Dante, and Shakespeare -- through the lens of resisting totalitarianism. In isolationist Albania, which suffered under a Communist dictatorship for nearly half a century, classic global literature reached Ismail Kadare across centuries and borders -- and set him free. The struggles of Hamlet, Dante, and Aeschylus's tragic figures gave him an understanding of totalitarianism that shaped his novels. In these incisive critical essays informed by personal experience, Kadare provides powerful evidence that great literature is the enemy of dictatorship and imbues these timeless stories with powerful new meaning."--Page 4 of cover.

Autor

Ismail Kadare is Albania's best known novelist, whose name is mentioned annually in discussions of the Nobel Prize. He won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005; in 2009 he received the Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, Spain's most prestigious literary award, and in 2015 he won the Jerusalem Prize. In 2016 he was named a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur. James Wood has written of his work, "Kadare is inevitably likened to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is a compellingly ironic storyteller because he so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality." His last book to be published in English, The Traitor's Niche, was nominated for the Man Booker International.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Restless Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 338mm x 200mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781632061744
• ISBN-10: 1632061740
• Artikelnr.: 48582872