Basque: Ismail Kadaré Albanian left the country

The Albanian writer Ismail Kadare He died this Monday morning, as announced by the France Presse agency. He died in Tirana, as a result of a heart attack.

Kadaré began writing poetry, but it was his novels that brought him international fame. He has written around thirty titles, including “The Palace of Dreams”, “The General of the Dead Army”, “Broken April”, “The Pyramid”, “The Bridge of Three Arches”, “The H File”… These last two titles can be read in Basque thanks to the translation by Juan Mari Arzallus, with the collaboration of Antton Olano in “H. dosierra”.

Kadaré’s relationship with the Albanian communist regime of Enver Hoxha has given rise to much talk; Kadaré wrote against totalitarianisms (The palace of dreams This is the most obvious example, but he was also accused of collusion with the harsh Hoxha regime.

After Hoxha’s death in 1990, Kadaré went into exile in France and spent time in Albania, where he settled again in 1999.

Kadaré’s literature is strongly linked to reality, with true events (for example, the territorial conflict in Kosovo or the call that Stalin made to Boris Pasternak in 1934 appear), but his literary approach is opposed to socialist realism, despite his origins (he studied at the Gorky Institute of World Literature until the break in relations between Albania and the USSR); in Kadaré’s books, everything happens in a diffuse territory that draws on myths and legends.

Source: Eitb

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