Classical Albanian Literature: A Reader (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515132769)

This reader presents the best of classical Albanian literature, from the end of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes the best-known works of the age, poetry in particular. After a sluggish start, Albanian literature flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. By the mid-1930s, it reached a zenith, when intellectual life in the country was finally on a sound footing. A modern literature had been created in Albania and the nation had come of age. Alas, it was a brief blossoming in the shadow of the apocalypse which loomed in the form of the Stalinist regime that seized power in 1944 and would snuff out all genuine literary production for decades to come.

Author: Robert Elsie
ISBN-10: 1515132765
ISBN-13: 9781515132769
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2015
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.53d