/lit/ - RIP Ismail Kadare (1936-2024), aged 88 - Literature

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RIP Ismail Kadare (1936-2024),(...) 07/01/24(Mon)04:59:44 No.23544138

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RIP Ismail Kadare (1936-2024), aged 88 Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)04:59:44 No.23544138 Archived

Reminder he didn't win the Nobel because he called out the communist regime. Same as Milan Kundera. What to read by Kadare? The General of the Dead Army and The Palace of Dreams are good starting places.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/01/ismail-kadare-giant-of-albanian-literature-dies-aged-88

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)07:48:44 No.23544322

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)07:48:44 No.23544322

>0 replies
The absolute state of this board.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)07:51:45 No.23544325

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)07:51:45 No.23544325

>>23544322
literally who

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)07:54:43 No.23544329

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)07:54:43 No.23544329

>>23544322
>NOOO WHY DOESN'T ANYBODY CARE ABOUT MY GLOWIE ZOGSLOP

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)07:57:31 No.23544334

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)07:57:31 No.23544334

Where would you start with his work OP? Some of his stuff is available in English and Spanish.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)08:25:39 No.23544377

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)08:25:39 No.23544377

>>23544138
Very good writer

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)11:53:03 No.23544937

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)11:53:03 No.23544937

>>23544334
I mentioned that in the OP. Those two books are available in both languages.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)11:54:04 No.23544941

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)11:54:04 No.23544941

>>23544325
>>23544329
retards

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)11:56:36 No.23544955

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)11:56:36 No.23544955

>>23544138
First I've heard of him, I'll check him out

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)12:00:32 No.23544972

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)12:00:32 No.23544972

>>23544334
>Marxism is the opium of ivy tower intellectuals

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)12:27:41 No.23545064

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)12:27:41 No.23545064

>>23544138
>he didn't win the Nobel because he called out
OR.....maybe he just wrote slop

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)12:35:35 No.23545076

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)12:35:35 No.23545076

>>23544138
>he didn't win the Nobel because he called out the communist regime
>the same prize that showered praise upon Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn
lmao

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)12:51:25 No.23545102

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)12:51:25 No.23545102

>>23545064
Kadare is a good writer. Dylan won it and he isn't even known for writing literature but for pop music. Ishiguro won it and he writes novels for menopausal housewives. etc

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)12:52:26 No.23545105

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)12:52:26 No.23545105

>>23545076
it's an open secret, I am correct.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)13:31:18 No.23545186

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)13:31:18 No.23545186

>>23544138
F. This thread deserves more posts like he deserved that Nobel. In addition to the Palace of Dreams I also really like Twilight of the Eastern God's and Traitor's Niche.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)14:49:33 No.23545385

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)14:49:33 No.23545385

>>23544138
Such an underrated author. Will miss him.

F.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)14:53:07 No.23545399

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)14:53:07 No.23545399

Great author, and great poet, too. His original poems in Albanian are sublime. Rest in peace.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)15:28:09 No.23545523

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)15:28:09 No.23545523

>>23544138
Hit me op
I love Kundera but the commie experience stuff doesn't really excite me, I read Kundera for literally everything else
Does Kadare have stuff to offer besides the communist experience?
This is not to demean such literature, it can be very competently written and be of value, I'm just tired of it

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)15:29:49 No.23545529

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)15:29:49 No.23545529

>>23545523
Read Broken April. It's about a blood feud in the Albanian highlands.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)15:32:39 No.23545534

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)15:32:39 No.23545534

>>23545523
The commie experience is either symbolic, not present, or secondary. Kadare's work has way more than that.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)15:33:32 No.23545539

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)15:33:32 No.23545539

Only tangentially by proxy of communism and the balkans but do you think The Bridge on the Drina by Andric is more successful than the Mountain Wreath because the former is a fundamentally lefty explanation of the phenomenon of the balkans, therefore palatable to liberals, while the Mountain Wreath is not despite arguable embodying the spirit of the balkans in a more truthful manner?

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)15:34:53 No.23545542

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)15:34:53 No.23545542

>>23545539
The Balkan spirit is rat poison to the effete liberal "spirit", so yes.

t. Balkan

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)15:35:36 No.23545545

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)15:35:36 No.23545545

>>23545523
He's one of the few writers who genuinely deserves the appellation 'Kafkaesque'. Try The Palace of Dreams, which uses an Ottoman historical setting to tell a story of a middling bureaucrat whose job it is to interpret and catalog peoples' dreams for the state.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)15:38:49 No.23545563

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)15:38:49 No.23545563

>>23545542
I didn't necessarily mean to talk shit about liberals, it's just that the historical image the Bridge on the Drina offers to the reader is basically the exact image libs want to think about the region's past - that everyone lived happily together in a mildly less idyllic balkanic equivalent of the pre-reconquista moorish convivencia until nationalism appeared for absolutely no reason at all and destroyed this happy multicultural utopia.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)15:44:13 No.23545577

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)15:44:13 No.23545577

>>23545523
He's not a writer you read for "the commie experience" lol

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)15:48:16 No.23545584

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)15:48:16 No.23545584

>>23545529
>>23545545
This stuff sounds very interesting, I'll give him a shot

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)15:54:03 No.23545599

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)15:54:03 No.23545599

>>23544329
retarded mutt faggot

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)17:04:17 No.23545814

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)17:04:17 No.23545814

>>23544138
>Ismail Kadare was born on 28 January 1936, in the Kingdom of Albania during the reign of King Zog I.
Zog is an killer name for a king. Now you have my interest; must peep.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)18:32:13 No.23546176

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)18:32:13 No.23546176

>>23545563
NTA but yeah. Bridge on the Drina is heavily biased because the writer was a Panslav Croat who declared himself a Serbian. Absolute shame he didn’t live long enough to see Yugoslavia dismembered by his Serbian countrymen.

Anonymous
07/01/24(Mon)20:46:32 No.23546699

Anonymous 07/01/24(Mon)20:46:32 No.23546699

I admit, I didn't get The General of the Dead Army. It's been a while since I read it, but I remember thinking there probably was some symbolism I missed. I didn't really understand the function of the priest's character or his relationship with the widow.