ROMANET E KADARESË TË KOHËS SË DIKTATURËS KOMUNISTE
THE KADARE’S NOVELS OF THE PERIOD OF COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP

Summary/Abstract: This paper, which I have given as a lecture at the 36th International Seminary on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture, (Prishtina, August, 2017) is a very short introduction of the first part of my monograph on Ismail Kadare’s novels of the period of comunist dictatorship in Albania (Aliu: 2016). There are fifteen novels I take under consideration: General of the Dead Army, The Monster, The Wedding, The Castle, The Chronicle in Stone, The Winter of Great Solitude, The November of a Capital City, The Three-Arched Bridge, The Great Paschalis, The Twilight of the Gods of the Steppe, The Broken April, Who brought Doruntine, The Concert at the end of Winter, The File on H, and The Dark Year. I analyze the fiction of Kadare in juxtaposition to the doctrine of socialist realism that was intended to transform literature into propaganda tool. This situation affects the author to build a creative strategy, which results in the introduction of a double rhetoric, which I call it a binary rhetoric: on one rail, the text of Kadare’s novels moves with the doctrine of socialist realism, while on the other rail it avoids it.

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