An edition of Twilight of the Eastern Gods (1981)

Twilight of the Eastern Gods

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An edition of Twilight of the Eastern Gods (1981)

Twilight of the Eastern Gods

1st American Edition
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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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Edition Availability
Cover of: Twilight of the Eastern Gods
Twilight of the Eastern Gods
6 August 2015, Canongate Books Ltd
Paperback in English
Cover of: Twilight of the Eastern Gods
Twilight of the Eastern Gods
4 November 2014, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Hardcover - 1st American Edition
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Muzgu i perëndive të stepës
2007, Onufri
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Muzgu i perëndive të stepës: roman
2006, Onufri
Cover of: Le Crépuscule des dieux de la steppe
Le Crépuscule des dieux de la steppe
March 1999, Gallimard Education, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Le Crépuscule des dieux de la steppe
Le Crépuscule des dieux de la steppe
October 1, 1989, French & European Pubns
Paperback
Cover of: Le Crépuscule des dieux de la steppe
Le Crépuscule des dieux de la steppe
1981, Fayard
in French

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New York

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Library of Congress
PG9621.K3 C7413 2014, PG9621.K3M8913 2014

Contributors

Translator
David Bellos
Introduction
David Bellos
Jacket Design
Peter Adlington

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
224
Dimensions
8.5 x 5.8 x 1 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26365041M
Internet Archive
twilightofeaster0000kada
ISBN 10
0802123112
ISBN 13
9780802123114
OCLC/WorldCat
871211449

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