|
Book Review: Chronicle In Stone: The boy who saw too much
|
CHRONICLE IN STONE BY Ismail Kadare Canongate, 384pp, GBP 7.99
ISMAIL KADARE'S FICTIONALISED memoir of his childhood is a brisk
read. The setting is Kadare's home city, Gjirokaster, in the south of
Albania, near the Greek border, the time 1939-43. The narrator is a
boy, lively, imaginative, intelligent and short-sighted. He is not to
be identified too closely with Kadare himself, even if one assumes
that the author's own memories of the war years - when Albania was
invaded by Italians, Greeks and Germans, and a variety of
collaborators and resistance groups fought what was in effect a ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)
|
Ismail Kadare: modern Homer or Albanian dissident?
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ISMAIL KADARE has experienced a life of controversy...for Literature in 2005, John Carey hailed Kadare as a writer who maps a whole culture...goes back to Homer. This assessment of Kadare as a guardian of Albanian identity certainly...
|
|
The Books Interview: Ismail Kadare - Enver's never-never land Ismail Kadare's novels take Albania's plight into the heart of Europe. Shusha Guppy talks to him
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...anxiously awaiting the outcome. Ismail Kadare's latest book, Three Elegies for Kosovo...have been fighting over Kosovo. Ismail Kadare once said that a writer has two ages...from behind the Iron Curtain. Since then, Kadare's prodigious output - 15 volumes of fiction...
|
|
Poet of Freedom: A Profile of Ismail Kadare.
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...Kosovan delegation paid a visit to Ismail Kadare, Albania's greatest living writer, in...general, and follow his advice, comments Kadare, showing me the pictures--four men surrounding...command authority and influence events. Kadare's latest book, Three Elegies for Kosovo...
|
|
|
Ismail Kadare. Hamlet, le prince impossible.(Book review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; Ismail Kadare. Hamlet, le prince impossible. Artan Kotro...Hamlet to the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was underscored in 1999 when the theater...after NATO's bombardment stopped. Although Kadare had admired the play since his adolescence...
|
|
|
Somewhat unsettled future for the Balkans This serious Nobel contender needs a better translator, says John Murray: Three Elegies for Kosovo by Ismail Kadare Harvill pounds 6.99
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...going through its death throes, Ismail Kadare as vice president of the Albanian Democratic...in 1990 where he has lived ever since,Kadare rapidly became his troubled country's...predicted finally erupted in Serbian Kosovo, Kadare was also obliged to become the media mouthpiece...
|
 "Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)")
|
Memories of the war years.(News)
Newspaper article from: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
; ...and his wife Doris (maiden name Calvert) grew up during the war years. The pair, from Thornaby, had been together a short while when...malaria. Doris says: My most poignant memory of growing up in the war years is the bombings. Our house wasn't bombed right down, but next...
|
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
|
Books: How Good Housekeeping kept the home fires burning; Those left at home during the war years attempted to lead normal lives. Chief Feature Writer Paul Groves looks at a fascinating archive.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...examples of the magazine and the articles published during the war years. But as well as highlighting some obvious examples, there are...messages reinforced in the pages of Good Housekeeping during the war years included the need to recycle and save paper and the benefits...
|
|
Read 50 remarkable accounts of 'The War Years'
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic
; ...people in the war and at home with a two-part section, "The War Years," published April 6 and 13. The complete multi-media package...hand stories they shared with our readers. Put reading "The War Years" on your list of things to do. It's a glimpse of an important...
|
 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
|
War years recalled.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ...exhibition at the town hall on July 16 and 17. The exhibition will feature memorabilia and personal memories of townsfolk during the war years. The Legion would also like to hear from people who may have come to Alcester to work, or as evacuees from 1939 to 1945. For...
|
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
|
FAMILY MEMORIES; NESTLE WORKERS BONDED DURING DIFFICULT WAR YEARS.(Neighbors Oswego)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; ...an occasional series of pieces on those who remember past war years. Neighbors invites readers to send in their short fiction and...and Nestle developed a strong working relationship during the war years. But it was the women workers, on their own time, who organized...
|
For more facts and information,
see all results
Find more facts and information related to the article "Book Review: Chronicle In Stone: The boy who saw ..."
