The General of the Dead Army (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ismail Kadare
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1962-1963
- Setting: Albania
- Principal Characters: The General, The Priest, Colonel Z., The Old Roadmender, The Albanian Expert, The German Team
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: History, Communism or communists, Sex or sexuality, Exile or expatriates, World War II, Victims, War, Alcohol, Death or dying, Symbolism, Vietnam or Vietnamese people
- Locales: Albania
Occasionally, history presents humanity with a bitter twist of events the intricacy of which seems to surpass the plotting of even the most skilled novelist or playwright; just such an occurrence appears to have happened in the case of the American reissue of Ismail Kadare’s first novel, Gjenerali i ushtrise se vdekur (1963; The General of the Dead Army, 1970). Kadare’s novel, which celebrates the fierce fighting spirit and the nationalistic, independence-minded pride of Albania’s Communist inhabitants, is offered to an English-speaking readership in the same year in...
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