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Cargando... The Last Journey of Ago Ymeripor Bashkim Shehu
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I suspect this book is better than I found it because I didn't particularly care for the author's self-indulgent (to me, anyway) playing with style. There's a lot to unpack in this fairly blatant allegory about modern Albania but I got tired of working so hard. The book is not helped by a translation that, while it may be literally accurate, does not read fluidly. I have no doubt the translator, an Albanian scholar now resident in the US, knows both language well. But she seemed a bit too slavishly intent on reproducing what I can only assume was the exact diction and syntax of the original. Accurate, very possibly. The way English is used, nope. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In a remote Albanian village, a place of banishment, a stranger appears, claiming to be Viktor Dragoti and looking for his long-lost love. That Viktor Dragoti has been dead for nine years, killed by the Albanian coast guard while trying to swim to freedom, only adds to the stranger's mystery--and to the suspense of this curiously real and yet otherworldly work by one of Albania's most distinguished writers. With echoes of The Return of Martin Guerre and Kafka's The Trial, with allusions to The Odyssey and the Albanian folktale of Ago Ymeri, a legendary hero released from the underworld for one day, Shehu's novel blends the autobiographical and the historical, the personal and the political into a powerful tale--a story that conveys the terrors, small and large, of a totalitarian state while capturing all that is surreal and even lyrical in life in such a deeply distorted world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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