Ismail Kadare The Doll recensie en informatie autobiografische roman uit Albanië. Op 3 december 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Counterpoint Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman Kukulla van de Albanese schrijver Ismail Kadare.
Ismail Kadare The Doll recensie en informatie
Als de redactie het boek gelezen heeft, kun je op de pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de autobiografische roman The Doll. Het boek is geschreven door Ismail Kadare. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de autobiografische roman uit 2015 van de Albanese schrijver Ismail Kadare.
The Doll
- Schrijver: Ismail Kadare (Albanië)
- Soort boek: Albanese roman, biografische roman
- Origineel: Kukulla (2015)
- Engelse vertaling: John Hodgson
- Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
- Verschijnt: 3 december 2020
- Omvang: 208 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Paperback / Ebook
Flaptekst van de roman van Ismail KadareI
In this autobiographical novel, Albania’s most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately wrought tale of home, family, creative aspirations, and personal and political freedom.
“Houses like ours seemed constructed with the specific purpose of preserving coldness and misunderstanding for as long as possible.”
In his father’s great stone house with hidden rooms and even a dungeon, Ismail grows up with his mother at the center of his universe. Fragile as a paper doll, she finds herself at odds with her tight-lipped and wise mother-in-law who, as is the custom for women of a certain age, will never again step foot over the threshold to leave her home. Young Ismail finds it difficult to understand his mother’s tears, though he can understand her boredom. She told him the reason herself in a phrase that terrified and obsessed the boy: “The house is eating me up!”
As Ismail explores his world, his mother becomes fearful of her intellectual son–he uses words she does not understand, writes radical poetry, falls in love far too easily, and seems to renounce everything she believes in. He will, she fears, have to exchange her for some other superior mother when he becomes a famous writer.
The Doll is a delicate and disarming autobiographical novel, an exploration of Kadare’s creative aspirations and their tangled connections to his childhood home and his mother’s tenuous place within it.
