KADARE, Ismail [Seamus Heaney].
The General of the Dead Army.
First Edition of The General of the Dead Army; Inscribed by Ismail Kadare to Fellow Writer Seamus Heaney
New York: Grossman, 1972.
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First American edition of the author's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Seamus Heaney on the half-title page, "To Seamus for his birthday friendly by Ismail Kadare 11 Oct 2005." The recipient, Seamus Heaney received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age." Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world." Although Heaney's birthday was in April, Kadare presented this early. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. From the library of Heaney. An exceptional association.
The General of the Dead Army ponders the futility of war as it follows an Italian general and a priest who seek the remains of a fallen comrade. It received many positive reviews: "Mr. Kadare advances wryly and dryly into the darkness[he] doesn't do messages; he brings them to lethal life" (New York Times). And the Boston Globe called it "a powerful and poignant Albanian novel." The novel has also been entered into the Parisian magazine Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, and twenty years after its publication by Sh.B. Naim Frashëri in 1963 it was adapted into an Italian drama film directed by Luciano Tovoli.
The General of the Dead Army.
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