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Ismail Kadare, Albaniens berühmtester Autor und seit Jahren Anwärter auf den Literatur-Nobelpreis, war Ende der 50er Jahre Student am berühmten Maxim-Gorki-Literaturinstitut in Moskau. In dieser Zeit wurde er Zeuge der beispiellosen Hetzkampagne in allen Medien gegen Boris Pasternak, der den Nobelpreis nicht entgegennehmen durfte. Illusionslos zeichnet Ismail Kadare ein Bild der Schriftsteller aus allen Teilen des großen Sowjetreichs, denen er im Rahmen seines Studienaufenthaltes am Maxim-Gorki-Institut begegnete. Zu seiner bodenlosen Enttäuschung trifft er überwiegend auf Konformisten, ultraloyale Schmeichler, frustrierte Sozialisten und…

In 1958, Kadare was selected to pursue his writing and literary studies as a graduate student in Moscow at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature. Twilight of the Eastern Gods is Kadare's fictionalized recreation of his time spent at this "factory of the intellect," a place created to produce a new generation of poets, novelists, and playwrights, all adhering to the state-sanctioned “socialist realist” aesthetic. During his time at the Gorky Institute, a kind of miniature Soviet Union where writers from deepest Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Caucasus all came to study, Kadare was caught up in the furore over Boris Pasternak's…

Titulo fundamental dentro de la obra de Ismael Kadaré (1936), EL OCASO DEL LOS DIOSES DELA ESTEPA (1978)- cuya versión definitiva, publicada en 1998 tras la caída del régimen comunista en Albania es la que ahora se ofrece- se nutre de las experiencias del autor, tanto personales como literarias, en sus estancia juvenil en la Unión Soviética. Si bien pueden rastrearse ya en ella algunos de los motivos que son recurrentes en su obra -como la confrontación de los mitos eslavos y albaneses o las relaciones entre el poder y la literatura-, la novela constituye una acerba y corrosiva crítica de los principios que dieron forma al yermo 'realismo…

1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him and demand that he refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book – could those simple pages really be so dangerous? Based on Ismail Kadare's own experience, Twilight of the Eastern Gods is a portrait of a city, a story of youthful disenchantment and a reminder of the incredible importance of the written word.

1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned its author the Nobel Prize. There is uproar. The author, Boris Pasternak, faces exile, the press hound him and demand that he refuse the award. A few days earlier the young writer found a copy of this book – could those simple pages really be so dangerous? &t;br/&t; Based on Ismail Kadare's own experience, Twilight of the Eastern Gods is a portrait of a city, a story of youthful disenchantment and a reminder of the incredible importance of the…