Parables of Dictatorship and the Aesthetics of Fear in the Novels of Ismail Kadare

The aim of this article is to show how the parable of totalitarianism is created in three of the main novels of Ismail Kadare, The Niche of Shame, The Three-Arched Bridge and The Palace of Dreams. I shall analyze and give interpretations of three basic symbols, such as the bridge, the dream and the...

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