Title : Twilight of the Steppe Gods - Ismail Kadare - book

Summary :

The narrator, an Albanian student in the USSR, is pleasantly bored in Riga, in a rest home for writers, and he thinks about Lida, with whom he is in love. When the new academic year begins, he returns to the stifling home for foreigners at the Gorky Institute. Like the dust that veils the dim lamps of the home more and more each day, the atmosphere slowly becomes heavier until the final quadruple drama: a smallpox epidemic is declared in Moscow, the Boris Pasternak affair breaks out, diplomatic relations between Albania and Moscow deteriorate to the point of breaking up, and the separation is inevitable between the narrator and Lida. But he does not dare tell her that he will never see her again, he does not admit to her that he is a writer. Like Constantine, he has betrayed the bessa, the given word of the very beautiful Balkan legend which, narrated here, constantly recalled, gives the entire novel a universal resonance.

• EAN: 9782070381340
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