| Classical Albanian Literature: A Reader Contributor(s): Elsie, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1515132765 ISBN-13: 9781515132769 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - Eastern (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.75 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This reader presents the best of classical Albanian literature, from the end of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes the best-known works of the age, poetry in particular. After a sluggish start, Albanian literature flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. By the mid-1930s, it reached a zenith, when intellectual life in the country was finally on a sound footing. A modern literature had been created in Albania and the nation had come of age. Alas, it was a brief blossoming in the shadow of the apocalypse which loomed in the form of the Stalinist regime that seized power in 1944 and would snuff out all genuine literary production for decades to come. |