Twilight of the Eastern Gods - Rilegato

Ismail Kadare

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0857860100 ISBN 13: 9780857860101

Casa editrice: Canongate Books Ltd, 2014

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language (Wall Street Journal)

Ismail Kadare is this generation's Kafka (Independent)

His fiction offers invaluable insights into life under tyranny . . . great writer, by any nation's standards (Financial Times)

One of the world's greatest living writers (Simon Sebag Montefiore)

There are very few writers alive today with the depth, power and resonance of this remarkable novelist (Herald)

One of the most important voices in literature today (Metro)

Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness (Los Angeles Times) --Independent

L'autore:

Born in 1936, Ismail Kadare is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translations of his novels have appeared in more than forty countries. In 2005 he was awarded the first 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 2009 Principe de Asturias de las Letras in Spain.

David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation at Princeton University, is also the translator of Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual and a winner of the Goncourt Prize for biography. He has translated seven of Ismail Kadare's novels, and in 2005 was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his translations of Kadare's work.

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• Editore: Canongate Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0857860100
• ISBN 13: 9780857860101
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256