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The Pyramid

The Pyramid

by David Bellos (Translator), IsmailKadare (Author), JusufVrioni (Translator)

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

When the Pharaoh Cheops comes to the throne, he decrees that no pyramid is to be constructed for him. The court sages consult the documents and hasten to change his mind. In the past the pyramids have been built not just as royal tombs but as the means to keep in subjection a people who might otherwise get ideas about emancipation. The Pharaoh relents and the pyramid takes a lifetime to build, sucking the nation dry of money and of blood and enabling the tyranny to flourish. Each day the slavemasters turn their energies to the enslavement of the population and each day more blocks of stone are hauled into position to construct the monument to oppression. Albania s greatest novelist, Kadare has written a telling political fable which reflects the grim realities of his country as it laboured under the Stalinist tyranny of Enver Hoxha.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 119
 Publisher: The Harvill Press
Published: 24 Apr 1998
ISBN 10: 1860461247
ISBN 13: 9781860461248
Book Overview: When Cheops decreed that he did not want a pyramid built for him, the court sages were left aghast. b> i>Translated by David Bellos from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni

Media Reviews
Kadare is patently a world-class novelist and prose poet - Boston Globe. A vast, deep, obsessive parable. Like every parable, its fundamental significance transcends its apparent meaning - Figaro. The political fable has always been Kadare's particular forte: his innate skill as an adventure writer makes him avoid the pitfall of abstractions - Nouvel Observateur.
Author Bio
ISMAIL KADARE, born in 1936 in the mountain town of Gjirokaster, near the Greek border, is Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Since the appearance of The General of the Dead Army in 1965, Kadare has published scores of stories and novels that make up a panorama of Albanian history linked by a constant meditation on the nature and human consequences of dictatorship. Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible, he wrote. The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. His works brought him into frequent conflict with the authorities from 1945 to 1985. In 1990 he sought political asylum in France, and now divides his time between Paris and Tirana.