#Ismail Kadare

[earthbloods]

Ismail Kadare, Në studion dimërore, trans. by Enna Horn

#lit #poetry #albanian literature #albanian poetry #words #ismail kadare #në studion dimërore #my translations

[kaggsy59]

The clash between tyrants and writers - over @shinynewbooks

I have another review up at Shiny New Books this week, as part of their celebration of award longlists. This time it’s a book by an author I’ve read before – Ismail Kadare. I found his “Twilight of the Eastern Gods” intriguing, if flawed, so I was keen to read his latest work “A Dictator Calls” which has resonances with the earlier book. An Albanian by birth, Kadare spent time studying in Soviet…

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#a dictator calls #ismail kadare #shiny new books

[itendsbeyond]

Hablaban con voz desgarrada en lenguas que habían abandonado; se golpeaban el pecho, sollozaban, juraban que no las abandonarían, que las hablaban en sueños, se culpaban de su bajeza por haberlas dejado allá a merced de la montaña o el desierto, a ellas, sus madres…

El ocaso de los dioses de la estepa, Ismail Kadaré

#ismail kadare #el ocaso de los dioses de la estepa #lenguas #lengua #madre #montañas #desierto

[sebastianravkin]

Reading recommendation for 2024

The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare is another book from my reading of the world. It also happens to have been banned at certain points in time in various countries around the world. According to the author, the book is his attempt to pen his personalized vision of hell with parallels to Dante's Inferno. It can be a difficult read, but well worth it if you are attempting a reading of the world.

The Palace of Dreams (Albania) by Ismail Kadare translated by Barbara Bray

Although I do not have my reading of the world list posted anywhere, here are links to other folks' thoughts and attempts to achieve this goal.

#fuck book banning #reading of the world #books and reading #book #book recommendations #The Palace of Dreams #ismail kadare #Barbara Bray

[the-railroad-earth]

currently reading - The Siege by Ismail Kadare, a harrowing fictionalized account of the clash between the Ottomans and Albanians at an unnamed fortress in the Albanian mountains. Set in the 15th century, the book so far has been a terrifying account of the everydayness of siege warfare. transporting the dead, digging tunnels, cannons malfunctioning, reading the stars. it's excellent, highly recommended to anyone interested in the ottoman empire and siege warfare in general.

#ismail kadare #the siege #ottoman empire #history #siege warfare #currently reading

[thoughtportal]

The Palace of Dreams is a novel set in the Ottoman empire but used by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare to reflect on the totalitarian state. Lea Ypi has been reading the novel which was banned two weeks after publication in 1981, but it had already sold out. Matthew Sweet looks at this and other examples of fiction exploring dreams, power and bureaucracy from Kafka to Dickens and Gospodinov. This Bulgarian novelist won the 2023 International Booker prize for his novel Time Shelter, which New Generation Thinker Mirela Ivanova has been reading. Also joining the conversation is Roger Luckhurst, Professor at Birkbeck University London who studies literature, film and cultural history.

#Bureaucracy from Kafka to Dickens and Gospodinov #bureaucracy #books #books and libraries #books and reading #books and literature #banned books #BBC #BBC arts and ideas #BBC radio #podcasts #podcast #franz kafka #charles dickens #Gospodinov #Ismail Kadare

[fionaruldass]

Aaaand now for something coempletely different! My OCs 🫣😳 Vic and Mark.

#personal art #my oc art #personal character #Vic #Mark-Alem #palace of dreams #ismail kadare

[turkudostu61]

#Süleyman Soylunun yardımcısı İsmail Çataklı kardeşinin FETÖ'den firari olduğunu ve aramasının olduğunu Özgür Özelden öğrenmiş. #Fıkra bu kadar 😀

[earthbloods]

Into what dream have we fallen so badly that we cannot wake up from it? ... A few raindrops fell on the glass, and I longed for you.

Ismail Kadare, Mall, trans. by Enna Horn

#lit #poetry #albanian literature #albanian poetry #words #ismail kadare #mall #my translations

[kaggsy59]

A Russian Snapshot

Twilight of the Eastern Gods by Ismail Kadare I guess most readers will have had that thing where a book or an author keeps floating into your line of vision, until you just think that you better get on and read it so it stops bothering you! I had that last year with this book, which turned up regularly on my Big River recommendations, as well as on a number of blogs I was following. So when I…

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#ismail kadare #pasternak #twilight of the eastern gods

[itendsbeyond]

En la mitología eslava se hablaba de una cabeza monstruosa que, sola en medio de la estepa, soplaba así, hinchando sus enormes carrillos para provocar tormentas de arena. Este huracán derribaba a cualquier caballero que osara aparecer en el horizonte (…) quizá fuera precisamente eso lo que me hacía estremecer: esa aniquilación provocada por un hálito de viento y barro, en mitad de la llanura muda y rasa, de la que no emergía más que la cabeza. Semejante mitología es preferible no tenerla, decía a veces Maskiavicius. Es una mitología de estepa y polvo.

El ocaso de los dioses de la estepa, Ismail Kadaré

#el ocaso de los dioses de la estepa #ismail kadare #mitología #eslavos #caballero #estepa #horizonte #arena #polvo #silencio #megalofobia

[vakitsizgittibehzat]

hiç mi iz bırakmadım onda ismail abi. benim o kadar gece uykum kaçtı onun sadece bi’ gece bile aklına düşmedim mi ben. benim tüm iç çekişlerimin sebebi olan adamın bir sigara dumanında bile anılmadım ben, abi. onun evini bilsem her gece kapısında sabahlardım. o benim sokağıma uğramadı abi, sokağıma. ismail abi ben onun evini falan bilmem. ama o benimkini bilirdi. isteseydi gelirdi abi. sokağıma bile gelmedi. bir gece bile beni düşünmedi. bir sigara dumanında bile anılmadım ben abi. normali bu zaten. benim de böyle olmam lazımdı ama olmadı. her gece düşündüm. evini bulamadım. her sigara dumanında onu andım abi ben. ne yapacağım, ben özlemeyi durduramıyorum ki.

[zombilerindekalbivar]

İsmail abi ne kadar "o gemi bir gün gelecek" dese de içten içe biliyordu bir daha gelmeyeceğini.

#zombilerindekalbivar #leyla ile mecnun #ismail abi #yoruldum #bıktım

[thefudge]

Drfudge, I remember you have some book recs posts but I can't find any, so I'd like to ask you what are your all time fave books, if it's okay. Thank you <3

you should check out my "books", and "book rec" tags on my blogs, but here is an updated list of some of my favorites (including essays and short stories):

what a carve up, by jonathan coe

excellent women, by barbara pym

restoration, by rose tremain

invitation to the waltz, by rosamond lehmann

journal d'hirondelle, by amelie nothomb

oblomov, by ivan goncharov

kiss me first, by lottie moggach

the idiot & demons, by dostoevsky

the idiot, by elif batuman

revolutionary road, by richard yates

the girl in the flammable skirt, by aimee bender

out of the woods, by chris offutt

hygiene de l'assassin, by amelie nothomb

memoirs of a dutiful daughter, by simone de beauvoir

chevengur, by andrei platonov

the master and margarita, by bulgakov

the corrections, by jonathan franzen

hamlet & king lear by shakespeare

richard iii & henry vi, part 1, by shakespeare

a midsummer night's dream, the taming of the shrew & as you like it by shakespeare

i capture the castle, by dodie smith

point counter point, by aldous huxley

arcadia, by tom stoppard

stoner, by john williams

eugene onegin, by pushkin

paradise lost & samson agonistes, by john milton

the age of innocence, by edith wharton

katherine mansfield's diaries & short stories

axel's castle, by edmund wilson

the dead, by james joyce

the heat of the day, by elizabeth bowen

pride and prejudice, by jane austen

franny and zooey, by salinger

the stranger, by albert camus

seduction and betrayal, by elizabeth hardwick

the beguiled, by cullinan thomas

girl with a pearl earring, by tracy chevalier

the wine of solitude, by irene nemirovsky

dark entries, by robert aickman

capitalist realism, by mark fisher

the blizzard, by vladimir sorokin

karate chop, dorothe nors

go, went, gone, by jenny erpenbeck

the blind firman, by ismail kadare

actress, by anne enright

genius and ink, by virginia woolf

real life, by brandon taylor

the world of yesterday, by stefan zweig

doce cuentos peregrinos, by gabriel garcia marquez

selected stories by anton chekhov

stories of your life, by ted chiang

ornament and silence, by kennedy fraser

the accompanist, by nina berberova

there are many others, including some romanian faves that i won't mention in this list, but this should give you a good overview!

#books #book rec #book faves #personal

[yasamsallik]

"Alıntı" Haydar Köse...

Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, 130 bin imamı (eşleriyle birlikte) günlüğü 920 liradan, antlaşma yaptıkları 5 yıldızlı otellerde bir haftalık tatile gönderiyor..!

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Pandemi de küçük esnafa yapılmayan yardımın parasıyla, imamlara süper lüx tatil yaptırılıyor..

Anlaşma yapılan otellerin sahibi de kimmiş yahu diye sorarsanız.?

TBMM eski başkanı, Atatürk'e kin ve nefret kusan İsmail Kahraman.!!

Şimdi, maaşlarımızdan kesilen vergiler, alışverişlerde ödediğimiz KDV'ler, ÖTV'lerin bu ''the imams holiday'' için harcanacak. Gidecek parayı bir hesaplayalım..

920 X 7 = 6.440 TL (bir imam için)

920 X 7 = 6.440 TL (bir imam eşi için)

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Bir milyar, altıyüz yetmişdört milyon, dörtyüz bin LİRA..

Söylenecekler bu kadar.. Şimdi dağılabilirsiniz..!!