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Indlæser... The Palace of Dreams (1981)af Ismail Kadare
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. El joven Mark-Alem, vástago de los Quyprilli, influyente familia de procedencia albanesa, y promotora de importantes reformas en el seno del Imperio Otomano, consigue un atractivo puesto de funcionario en EL PALACIO DE LOS SUEÑOS, inquietante organismo estatal al que cada ciudadano está obligado a enviar por escrito un informe de lo soñado durante la noche. Pallati i Ëndrrave” është një nga romanet thelbësore të Ismail Kadaresë, me frymën e epikës, të cilën letërsia europiane e quante të shteruar: me njëmbëdhjetë romane, - titujt kryesorë të të cilëve po përkthehen herë pas here, vepra e tij vazhdimisht ka qenë në listën e kandidaturave për çmimin “Nobel”, në emër të letërsisë së Shqipërisë. Ai do ta meritonte atë çmim edhe sikur të kishte shkruar vetëm “Pallati i Ëndrrave”, si hipotezë mbi historinë e vërtetë të viktimave të vrasjeve të mëdha ose mbi atë pagjumësi kolektive që perandoria otomane nuk mund të tolerojë. "The Palace of Dreams" is a fascinating novel and one of those that begs for discussion. Kadare creates a story immersed in an ominous but unidentified threat. Along the way, the author asks the reader to ponder many themes: fate, the nature of reality, national identity, and, of course, dreams. A seemingly simple tale engenders almost endless possibilities. The reader is unlikely to view dreams in the same way again. A simple but incredibly creative idea for a novel. An easy and very rewarding read from a gifted author. This police-state parable, set in a reimagined Ottoman empire, is bloodless enough that the Hoxha regime almost overlooked it, belatedly dropping the banhammer with 20,000 copies already in the wild. The titular institution is a version of Kafka's Castle (though less fiendish and less funny), a bureaucratic maze dedicted to sifting the nocturnal reveries of the Empire for subversive symbols. There's one dramatic incident late on, but otherwise we follow our nonentity of a protagonist as he blithely navigates the Party apparatus, inadvertently getting his illustrious family into a spot of bother. The plot touches briefly on the tradition of the Balkan rhapsodes and there's some Slav/Turk/Albanian ethnic tension which is interesting, but this novel is slight and bland in comparison to other suppressed Iron Curtain satires like Kundera's The Joke or Jiří Gruša's The Questionnaire. A acção passa-se no império Otomano no século XIX, descreve o complicado tabuleiro geopolítico dos Balcãs e faz referência à história da Albânia e às conflituosas ligações com estados vizinhos como Bósnia, Turquia e Kosovo. Desde a antiguidade que o mundo reconheceu a importância dos sonhos, desde o Oráculo de Delfos até aos quiromantes romanos. Contudo, esta é a primeira vez que a explicação dos sonhos é institucionalizada, o Palácio dos Sonhos. O medo irracional do Sultão, a tirania disfarçada de controlo, com o intuito de encontrar eventuais mensagens escondidas nos sonhos da população em prol do império, tornam o Palácio como uma sofisticada polícia do subconsciente. A pesada superstrutura burocrática deste Palácio, a sua imponência, solidão e austeridade, transporta-nos para um mundo kafkiano, ainda mais invasivo, despersonalizado e trágico. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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The mysterious Palace of Dreams stands at the heart of a vast but fragile Balkan empire. Inside, workers assiduously sift, sort, classify, and ultimately interpret the dreams of the empire's citizens. The workers search out Master-Dreams that will provide clues to the destiny of the empire and its Sultan. Mark-Alem, scion of a noble family that has provided viziers to the Sultan from time immemorial, and whose power the Sultan distrusts, is recruited into the Palace of Dreams at the humblest level. He immediately feels the terrible pressure that drives his coworkers, the dread of overlooking a crucial dream whose capture and interpretation might avert political disaster. But he rapidly rises through the hierarchy--only barely ?nding his bearings in one section of the Palace's labyrinthine passages that represent the entire empire's consciousness laid bare before he is promoted to another. And the pressure only increases as he becomes familiar with the fates of subversive dreamers and personally responsible for the sorts of dreams that might ruin an entire family. A family like his own with this beautifully bound hardcover edition, The Palace of Dreams is powerfully imagined and beautifully written, a national classic from one of Albania's premiere literary voices. No library descriptions found. |
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