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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Note on Titles and Place Names
Foreword
Introduction
1 Kadare’s Albania
Albanian History, Culture, and Religion
Albanian Communism
Socialism, Literature, and Identity in the Soviet Union and Albania
2 The Young Writer and the Regime
Beneficiary of Communism
Youth and Disillusionment in The City without Signs, 1959–1961
Home Again: The Early 1960s
Unmastered Past: The General of the Dead Army, 1962–1963
Threat, Infiltration, and Terror in The Monster, 1965
China and the Albanian Cultural Revolution, 1965–1968
Tradition and Modernity in The Wedding, 1968
Conclusion
3 Maturity and Political Responsibility
The Writer and the Dictator
‘Heavy ore of memory’: Chronicle in Stone, 1970
‘Opening the Doors of the Prison’: Winter of Great Solitude, 1969–1973
The Purge of the Liberals and the End of the Chinese Alliance, 1973–1978
‘The Red Pashas’, 1974
Exile in the Myzeqe, 1975
The Education of the Writer: Twilight of the Steppe-Gods, 1976
Eternal Albania: The Three-Arched Bridge, 1978
Conclusion
4 Kadare’s Final Political Vision at the End of the Regime
Kosovo and the Shehu Affair, Early 1980s
‘The Darkest Phase’: The Palace of Dreams, 1981–1982
Apologia pro vita sua: The Shadow, 1984–1986
Death of the Dictator, 1985
The Wrong Side of History: Aeschylus or the Great Loser, 1985
Signs of Change, Late 1980s
Conclusion
Postscript: After Socialism
Conclusion
Chronology
Bibliography
Index
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