Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in Stone; Albania

Read the opening chapter

Also:

An extract from The Siege


Paris Review Interview

The Times Interview

The Independent Interview

FT, Small Talk

Scottish Review of Books Interview

NYT - Ismail Kadare;A Meeting Of the Venerated And Best Known


I have enjoyed reading Kadare's book (in French translation)  about Aeschylus and Ancient Greek influences and cultural survivals in Albania and neighbouring countries in the Balkan peninsula. I bought it at a stall on the banks of the River Seine:

More, from Aeschylus, the Lost

(Asymptote Journal),

translated from the Albanian by Ani Kokobobo -

An excerpt from the essay “Aeschylus, the Lost,” from Essays on World Literature: Shakespeare • Aeschylus • Dante by Ismail Kadare, translated by Ani Kokobobo,  Restless Books.