CRITICISM

Altinel, Savkar. “Required Revenges.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4575 (7-13 December 1990): 1327.

Altinel views Broken April not only as a poignant novel but also as a “powerful allegory about pre-Communist Albania.”

Daniels, A. M. “Protests of a Protégé.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4824 (15 September 1995): 28.

Daniels maintains that Kadare's autobiographical Albanian Spring is “less than frank, and its denunciation of dictatorship less than unequivocal.”

Duplain, Julian. “Satellite Lives.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4774 (30 September 1994): 23.

Duplain offers a positive assessment of The Concert, contending that the work “is a study of how it feels to be terrifyingly near to a very large power, and yet find it incomprehensible.”

MacPherson, Hugh. “New Order, Old Ballad.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4977 (21 August 1998): 22.

MacPherson analyzes Kadare's narrative technique in The Three-Arched Bridge.

Marx, Bill. “Albanian Dissonance.” Nation 259, no. 21 (19 December 1994): 773-74.

Marx traces the publication of Kadare's novels in the United States and characterizes The Concert as “an arresting hodgepodge of nationalistic sentiment, melodrama, political parable and bitter slapstick.”

Miron, Susan. “Central and East European Fiction Chronicle.” Partisan Review 61, no. 4 (fall 1994): 643-56.

Miron examines The Palace of Dreams in light of its status as a banned book in Kadare's native Albania.

Walters, Colin. Review of The Palace of Dreams, by Ismail Kadare. Insight on the News 9, no. 40 (4 October 1993): 34-6.

Walters praises Kadare's vivid depiction of coming of age in a totalitarian society in The Palace of Dreams but faults the novel's lack of complex secondary characters.

Additional coverage of Kadare's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 161; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 52; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Literature Resource Center; and Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. 3.