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Ndonëse midis Lindjes e Perëndimit marrëdhëniet janë disi të shtendosura, në Moskën e fundit të viteve ’50 atmosfera artistike mbetet mbytëse. Destalinizimi nuk është ndier ende në sferat letrare. Në një atmosferë të denjë për “Vdekje në Venetik”, ndërkohë që një epidemi përhapet nëpër rrugë, një furtunë e egër shpifjesh shpërthen kundër Boris Pasternakut, i cili në faqet e “Muzgut”, shfaqet si një hero pozitiv, sa kohë që vepra e poetit rus denonconte stalinizmin.
Pasternaku është i vetëm përballë makinës sovjetike. Kadare, duke pasur kartë të bardhë për të kritikuar BRSS-në, me të cilin Tirana ka prerë çdo lidhje, mund të denoncojë cenet e sistemit, pa ngjallur zemërimin e hapur të kritikës shqiptare. Ja gjithë paradoksi i këtij romani, me të cilin shkrimtari i lejon vetes që, me një ton satirik, madje fort të hidhur, të kritikojë indirect mekanizmin e qeverisjes së Shqipërisë, duke folur për Moskën.
Por edhe pse “politikisht korrekt”, meqenëse ai kritikonte Bashkimin Sovjetik hrushovian, romani priti disa vite para se të kishte fatin të shihte dritën e botimit. Titulli i tij, nën një maskë vagneriane a nuk të kujton djegien e një Walkurie socialiste? Formula “muzgu i perëndive të stepës” nuk do të mund të shërbente në vitet 1990 apo 1991 për ndonjë studim mbi shembjen e bllokut komunist?
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Twilight of the Eastern Gods
6 August 2015, Canongate Books Ltd
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4 November 2014, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Le Crépuscule des dieux de la steppe
March 1999, Gallimard Education, Gallimard
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In 1958, Kadare was selected to pursue his writing and literary studies as a graduate student in Moscow at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature. Twilight of the Eastern Gods is Kadare’s fictionalized re-creation of his time spent at this “factory of the intellect,” a place created to produce a new generation of poets, novelists, and playwrights, all adhering to the state-sanctioned “socialist realist” aesthetic. During his time at the Gorky Institute, a kind of miniature Soviet Union where writers from deepest Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Caucasus all came to study, Kadare was caught up in the furor over Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize win, when the Soviet Union demanded that Pasternak refuse the foreign, bourgeois award or be sentenced to exile. Kadare’s time at the Institute, the drunken nights, corrupt professors, and enforced aesthetics are fictionalized in a novel that entwines Russian and Albanian myth with Soviet history. Twilight of the Eastern Gods is a portrait of a city and a story of youth, disenchantment, and the incredible importance of the written word.
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