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The paper explores the effect the past has on the present even if it has been suppressed or apparently forgotten. Ismail Kadare had brilliantly depicted this fact in his novels especially those relating to Albanian history.
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The past remains a significant influence on our present whether we like it or not. This paper goes through a selection of the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare's novels. The contemporary socio-political conditions in Albania created by Enver Hoxha's dictatorship prevented Kadare from engaging with them directly. This forced Kadare to look to the nation's past to allegorically critique the government and reignite the national conscience.
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This page is a summary of: Spectres of Memory in the Works of Ismail Kadare, University of Bucharest Review Literary and Cultural Studies Series, October 2021, Universitate din Bucuresti (University of Bucharest),
DOI: 10.31178/ubr.11.1.3.
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