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Albanian exile Ismail Kadare’s first novel explores the waste of war through those who have to traipse in its aftermath, atoning for its crimes and cleaning up after it.Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is dispatched to Albania to recover his country's dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission, and their conversations bring out into the open the extent of their horror and guilt, newly exacerbated by their present task. As they descend from the callous trivialities of their gruesome business, past and present, to suffering self-disgust, the author gives us glimpses of the lives of the people whose graves they are unearthing."With its metonymic realism and fidelity to its characters, The General of the Dead Army reminds us why his work is so valued." - New Stateman“No one since Kafka has delved into the infernal mechanism of totalitarian power and its impact on the human soul in as much hypnotic depth as Kadare.” - Nominating Juror for the Neustadt Prize"The General of the Dead Army is his first and perhaps most famous novel. Though not as political, metaphorical or rich in symbolism as his later nove

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Author

Kadare, Ismail; Smiley, David

Publisher

Texas Bookman

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780704334977

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, War & Military Fiction

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24