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Chilling Tales of Albania |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Carol Herman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,091 Words, 6,822 Characters |
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AGAMEMNON'S DAUGHTER: A NOVEL AND STORIES
Ismail Kadare
Translated from the French of Tedi Papvrami and Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos
Arcade, $24.00, 226 pages
Before getting to the three tales that comprise Ismail Kadare's Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories, readers must traverse two sections that amount to an extended preface.
From the Translator's Note readers learn that the three stories, Agamemnon's Daughter, The Blinding Order and The Great Wall, were written at different times, set in different historical periods and have been translated from the Albanian by two different people--Tedi Paparvrami and Jusuf Vrioni--who wrote their translations in French. David Bellos has translated the French into English for the current volume....
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...mes focusing on persecution of those possessed of the "evil eye." And in The Great Wall, the author fashions a chilling confrontation between a Chinese official and a soldier in the invading army of Tamerlane.
Cold gruel here. Of portraying the utter absence of humanity in a nation's cruelest hours, Kadare has few peers. Kafka, maybe.
Copyright © 2006 The Washington Times, LLC.
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