“Le Monde” praises Kadare among 100 big names suggested by critics

French newspaper “Le Monde” selected from the list of 100 best writers, and Ismail Kadare with the novel “Dead Army General”. This supplement comes in the form of a suggestion for the reader, a elite pleade of authors recorded by newspaper critics since 1946. Renowned Albanian writer Ismail Kadare [...]
Renowned Albanian writer Ismail Kadare and his work “Dead Army General” is included in the list of 100 best novels that critics of the newspaper “Le Monde” has been recorded since its creation in 1946. Kadare ranks among the great writers of this century, such as Kazanzaqis, Passernak, Kundera, Solzhenictin, Aragon, Jurenar, Graham Green, Salman Rushdi etc, writes “Oranews”.
This elite pleade comes as a suggestion for the reader, through a special literary supplement, which advises between them the novel “the general of the late army” presented with the criticism Allen Boske made in “Le Monde” in 1970.
Whatever hits the author's fine irony immediately, his Italian general is not a cartoon. He has his virtues, one of which is half-confidence in his mission, and flaws such as indifference to anything”, writes Boske about Kadare's novel.
For “critics Le Monde”, this selection of just a few writers between the great names, has not been an easy task. The supplement explains that the list of authors has been the product of intense debate and debate.











