The File on H

The File on H

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

Synopsis

In the mid-1930s, two Irish-American scholars arrive in a small town in Northern Albania to carry out research on the surviving tradition of spoken verse epics, recording the last of the wandering ballad-mongers. They hope to solve the mystery of Homer's authorship of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

$9.62

Save:$5.65 (37%)

Quantity

1 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 169
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Published: 19 Jun 1997

ISBN 10: 186046257X
ISBN 13: 9781860462573
Book Overview: A haunting yet humorous evocation of a society dangerously trapped in its past. /b>Translated by David Bellos i>from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vriono

Media Reviews
A virtuoso performance, he plays this one in every key and avoids the commonplaces of psychology... one of his most successful novels - Le Monde. A small miracle... The whole of Albania is here in all its paradoxes and contradictions - Evenement du Jeudi. Here is a novel that reveals the many facets of Kadare's talents - by turns solemn, sardonic, satirical, electric with life and laughter - Nouvel Observateur. One of Kadare's most accomplished novels, brilliant, fast-paced, comical, quite perfect - Quinzaine litteraire
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