Essays on World Literature (eBook)

Aeschylus * Dante * Shakespeare

Ismail Kadare (Autor)

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2018
304 Seiten
Restless Books (Verlag)
978-1-63206-175-1 (ISBN)

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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. With eloquent prose and the narrative drive of a great mystery novel, Kadare renews our readings of the classics and lends them a distinctly Albanian tint. Like Mark Twain's Mississippi River, Marquez's Macondo, and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Kadare's Albania emerges as a microcosm of civilization; here, blood vengeance in mountain communities reaches the dramatic heights of Hamlet's dilemma, funereal rites take on the air of Greek tragedy, and political repression gives life the feel of Dante's nine circles of Hell. Like Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, Essays on World Literature casts reading itself as a daring act of resistance to artistic suppression. Kadare's insights into the Western canon secure his own place within it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.2.2018
• Übersetzer: Ani Kokobobo
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aeschylus • Albania • ancient tragedies • Ani Kokobobo • Asturias Literature Prize • Balkan region • Balkans • best authors from Albania • best books about classic literature • best books about Dante • best books about Greek tragedies • best books about Shakespeare • best books about the Balkan region • best books about world literature • best books by Ismail Kadare • best nonfiction books by Ismail Kadare • blood vengeance • Cannon • Classic Literature • Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur • Dante • Dante's Inferno • essays by Ismail Kadare • Essays on World Literature • Greek tragedy • Hamlet • Harold Bloom • Harold Bloom Shakespeare • Ismail Kadare • James Wood • Jerusalem Prize • Literary Canon • Literary criticism • Literary Theory • Man Booker International Prize • Milan Kundera • Nobel Prize for literature • Prometheus Bound • Shakespeare • Susan Sontag Against Interpretation • theory • THE TRAITOR’S NICHE • Totalitarianism • Vladimir Nabokov Lectures on Literature • World literature
• ISBN-10: 1-63206-175-9 / 1632061759
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-175-1 / 9781632061751