The twilight of the steppe gods
The twilight of the steppe gods (original title: Muzgu i perëndive të stepës ) is a novel by Ismail Kadare published in 1978 in Albanian . The subject of the book is his stay at the famous Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow and the smear campaign against Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak in 1958.
The first edition was part of the anthology "Ura me tri harqe" which included three more new works. The first chapter was published in 1972 with the title "A Summer in Dubulti" in the literary magazine "Nëntori". A full version, with less prudish- led censorship, was published in French translation in France in 1981. A revised version was published in Albania in 1998.
content
It tells the story of a young Albanian literature student who is studying in Moscow. It's about love and goodbye.
translation
The German translation by Joachim Röhm was published by S. Fischer Verlag in 2016 .
expenditure
- Ismail Kadare: Muzgu i perëndive të stepës . In: Ura me tri harqe . Naim Frashëri, Tirana 1978.
- Ismail Kadare: Le crépuscule des dieux de la steppe . Fayard, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-213-00956-2 .
- Ismail Kadare: Muzgu i perëndive të stepës . Onufri, Tirana 2006.
- Ismail Kadare: The Dawn of the Steppe Gods . Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-038414-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://bpl-polaris.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2150997075?active_tab=bib_info
- ↑ a b Joachim Röhm: Afterword . In: The Dawn of the Steppe Gods . Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-038414-0 , pp. 205-207 .
- ↑ The Dawn of the Steppe Gods on fischerverlage.de, accessed on March 6, 2017