Ismail Kadare

Twilight of the Eastern Gods (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Bellos, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him and demand that he refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book - could those simple pages really be so dangerous? Based on Ismail Kadare's own experience, Twilight of the Eastern Gods is a fictionalised recreation of his time as a student at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature - a strange 'factory of the intellect' set up to produce a new generation of Socialist writers. With its drunken nights, uninspiring professors, specially selected students and enforced Socialist Realism his time at the Gorky Institute brought Kadare to the brink of abandoning writing altogether. In English for the first time, Twilight of the Eastern Gods is a portrait of a city and a time, it is a story of youth, of disenchantment and of the incredible importance of the written word.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857868909
• Artikelnr.: 41218335

Autorenporträt

Ismail Kadare was born in Albania in 1936. His first novel, The General of the Dead Army, established him as a major international voice in literature. His work has since been translated into forty languages, and in 2005 he became the first winner of the Man Booker International Prize, for "a body of work written by an author who has had a truly global impact." He is the recipient of the highly prestigious Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain. David Bellos, Director of the Program of Translation at Princeton University, is also the translator of Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual , and the author of the celebrated book on translation, Is That A Fish In Your Ear?. He has translated seven of Kadare's novels.

Rezensionen

Ismail Kadare is this generation's Kafka Independent