The File on H. - Softcover

Kadare, Ismail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611457998 ISBN 13: 9781611457995

Verlag: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013

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Book by Kadare Ismail

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Kadare combines metaphysical inquiry with social realism . . . [and] a comic touch, though one dark and penetrating in the manner of Samuel Beckett's fiction. As satiric and absurd as something by early Evelyn Waugh or Lawrence Durrell. The farce is sustained with touches of comic nightmare.

Reseña del editor:

In the mid-1930s, two Irish Americans travel to the Albanian highlands with an early model of a marvelous invention, the tape recorder. Their mission? To discover how Homer could have composed works as brilliant and as long as The Iliad and The Odyssey without ever putting pen to paper. The answer, they believe, can be found only in Albania, the last remaining habitat of the oral epic. But immediately upon their arrival, the scholars' seemingly arcane research excites suspicion and puts them at the center of ethnic strife in the Balkans. Mistaken for foreign spies, they are placed under surveillance and are dogged by gossip and intrigue. It isn't until a fierce-eyed monk from the Serbian side of the mountains makes his appearance that the scholars glimpse the full political import of their search for the key to the Homeric question.

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• Verlag: Skyhorse Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1611457998
• ISBN 13: 9781611457995
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208