Ismail Kadare : the writer and the dictatorship, 1957-1990

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Dedication Acknowledgements Note on Titles and Place Names Foreword Introduction 1 Kadare’s Albania Albanian History, Culture, and Religion Albanian Communism Socialism, Literature, and Identity in the Soviet Union and Albania 2 The Young Writer and the Regime Beneficiary of Communism Youth and Disillusionment in The City without Signs, 1959–1961 Home Again: The Early 1960s Unmastered Past: The General of the Dead Army, 1962–1963 Threat, Infiltration, and Terror in The Monster, 1965 China and the Albanian Cultural Revolution, 1965–1968 Tradition and Modernity in The Wedding, 1968 Conclusion 3 Maturity and Political Responsibility The Writer and the Dictator ‘Heavy ore of memory’: Chronicle in Stone, 1970 ‘Opening the Doors of the Prison’: Winter of Great Solitude, 1969–1973 The Purge of the Liberals and the End of the Chinese Alliance, 1973–1978 ‘The Red Pashas’, 1974 Exile in the Myzeqe, 1975 The Education of the Writer: Twilight of the Steppe-Gods, 1976 Eternal Albania: The Three-Arched Bridge, 1978 Conclusion 4 Kadare’s Final Political Vision at the End of the Regime Kosovo and the Shehu Affair, Early 1980s ‘The Darkest Phase’: The Palace of Dreams, 1981–1982 Apologia pro vita sua: The Shadow, 1984–1986 Death of the Dictator, 1985 The Wrong Side of History: Aeschylus or the Great Loser, 1985 Signs of Change, Late 1980s Conclusion Postscript: After Socialism Conclusion Chronology Bibliography Index