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Sto caricando le informazioni... Il generale dell'armata morta: romanzo (1963)di Ismaîl Kadaré
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. As a previous reviewer has mentioned, this is a bleak, gray book, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a bad novel. It describes the travails of a post-Second World War Italian general charged with finding and recovering his country's war dead from Albania. The job, and the book, is a slog, but that might be by design: while the author avoids addressing the issue of fascism directly, his main character is clearly dealing with the impersonal, bureaucratic aspect of modern conflict. Permanence is also an important theme here: Kadere convincingly demonstrates how injustice and the human damage that it causes can survive decades, and even centuries. It's probably a cliché at this point to say that the dead don't always stay buried, but Kadere's decision to make this truism concrete is still an effective metaphor for personal histories as well as the history of nations. As others have noted, the parts of "The General of the Dead Army" that leaves the deepest impression are its descriptions of Albania's landscape, which is almost uniformly rough, barren, and, inhospitable. They give the book a certain bracing, poetic quality that keeps it descending into sheer miserablism and is, I think, conveyed rather well by the translation. I can't imagine that Albanian is too easy to translate from, but the language here seems natural and appropriately spare. As the general of the title slowly descends into alcoholism and illness, the book begins to drag -- again, perhaps, on purpose -- allowing the author can suggest, perhaps with some reason, that dealing with the aftermath's of war can be as arduous and as emotionally damaging as trench warfare itself. "The General of the Dead Army" is the only book by an Albanian author that I've ever read. Next time, however, I think that I'll pick a cheerier product of Albanian literature, if such a thing exists. Romanzo di un grigiore e disperazione pazzesco. Credo che sia un messaggio dell'autore nei confronti del proprio popolo nella speranza che escono dalla violenza in cui sono piombati per tornare agli albanesi di una volta. Onestamente l'ho finito giusto per non dire di avere abandonato un libro. Scarso e inconsistente.
In 1963 verscheen het debuut van de enige Albanese schrijver die ook over de landsgrenzen naam en faam geniet er waarvan veel werk in Nederlandse vertaling is uitgegeven. Op een onorthodoxe wijze beschrijft hij de zoektocht van een Italiaanse generaal naar de vele tienduizenden landgenoten die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in het onherbergzame Albanië zijn gesneuveld en achtergelaten. Alhoewel het de debuutroman van Ismail Kadare is, lijkt het of er een zeer ervaren en gelouterde auteur aan het woord is... Ismail Kadare’s world is a sort of antimatter. It destroys ours. Except that, unlike the example from particle physics, it also complements ours and to stark effect. To read the novels of this great Albanian writer...is to enter a nightmare we cannot inhabit, but we sense that it inhabits us.
This is the story of an Italian general, accompanied by his chaplain, charged with the mission of scouring Albania in search of the bones of their fallen countrymen, killed twenty years earlier during World War II. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)891.9913Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Baltic and other Indo-European languages Other Indo-European languages Albanian Albanian fictionClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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De Generaal, de leider van het project, begint ijverig aan de opsporingen, maar beseft stilaan meer en meer dat hij niet veel betekent met de dode soldaten, ook niet als strateeg waar hij zonder ervaring over nadenkt. Hij wordt 20 jaar na de oorlog nog duidelijk vijandig bekeken: de fascist als weleer. Zijn vooroordelen tov Albanië en de bevolking botsen uiteindelijk kletterend en hij moet onder woedende druk van dorpsbewoners afdruipen met een zak op de rug met een skelet.... Uiteindelijk is hij maar een generaal dankzij het uniform.... Hij ontmoet nog een Duitse Generaal, met eenzelfde opdracht, die nog openlijk voor zijn corruptie uitkomt. Beschaamd zal hij terug vertrekken naar Italië.... ( )