by Ismail Kadare · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253054900
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«Invitation à un concert officiel et autres récits» is the short story collection by Ismail Kadaré (Librairie Générale Française, paperback, 316 pages).
It brings together nine stories in which Kadaré tackles power and cruelty with an almost theatrical staging: families marked by repression, ghosts of grandeur, and nightmares of Chinese inspiration. The prose combines striking images with the Albanian author's critical view of authoritarian regimes.
Text in French, translated from Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni and Alexandre Zotos.
For those seeking short stories with political undertones and a gateway into Kadaré's narrative.
Ismail Kadare was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He was a leading international literary figure and intellectual, focusing on poetry until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army, which made him famous internationally.
