{"product_id":"essays-on-world-literature-aeschylus-dante-shakespeare-paperback","title":"Essays on World Literature: Aeschylus - Dante - Shakespeare - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIsmail Kadare\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAni Kokobobo\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Man Booker International-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBroken April\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Siege\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, M rquez'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Like Azar Nafisi's \u003ci\u003eReading Lolita in Tehran\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEssays on World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsmail Kadare\u003c\/b\u003e is Albania's best known novelist, whose name is mentioned annually in discussions of the Nobel Prize. He won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005; in 2009 he received the Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, Spain's most prestigious literary award, and in 2015 he won the Jerusalem Prize. In 2016 he was named a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur. James Wood has written of his work, \"Kadare is inevitably likened to Orwell and Kundera, but he is a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second. He is a compellingly ironic storyteller because he so brilliantly summons details that explode with symbolic reality.\" His last book to be published in English, \u003ci\u003eThe Traitor's Niche\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for the Man Booker International. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A native Albanian, \u003cb\u003eAni Kokobobo\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor and director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas where she teaches Russian literature and culture. She has published an edited volume, \u003ci\u003eRussian Writers and the Fin de Siècle - The Twilight of Realism \u003c\/i\u003e(Cambridge University Press, 2015), a monograph, \u003ci\u003eRussian Grotesque Realism: The Great Reforms and Gentry Decline\u003c\/i\u003e (Ohio State University Press, 2017), and another edited volume, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Moscow: Reading Russia's Regional Identities and Initiatives \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2017).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770464469280,"sku":"9781632061744","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/62ae9026ad9170a016d4b5d701b365a3.webp?v=1780372227","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/essays-on-world-literature-aeschylus-dante-shakespeare-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}