Author : Robert Elsie
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2006-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810123371
In these stories representing the last three decades of Albanian writing--especially the burst of creativity in the newfound freedom of the 1990s--readers will encounter work that reflects the literary paradox of Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century: the startling originality of the new uneasily coupled with the strains of history; the sophistication and self-consciousness of late (or post-) modernity married to the simplicity of a literature first finding its voice; a refusal of political influence and pressure expressed through frankly political subject matter.