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Albanian Dissonance
Marx, Bill | December 19, 1994 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The Concert," written by Ismail Kadare. Set in the seventies when the alliance between China and Albania was souring, the book swaps the writer's customary elemental underworld for a more contemporary hell. As Kadare filters the past through the screen of modern tyranny, his fiction of the eternal bloody return lacks the spicy irony that is expected of Eastern European writers. He finished the book shortly before he left Albania, and perhaps judged that its tragicomic tone would not be acceptable to his country's authorities.

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CONCERT, The (Book); KADARE, Ismail; LITERATURE; ALBANIA -- History; BOOKS; ALBANIA
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