چه کسی دورونتین را باز آورد؟

by Ismail Kadare, قاسم صنعوی (Translator)

About the author

Ismail Kadare (also spelled Kadaré) was an Albanian novelist and poet. He has been a leading literary figure in Albania since the 1960s. He focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. In 1996 he became a lifetime member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of France. In 1992, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca; in 2005, he won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, in 2009 the Prince of Asturias Award of Arts, and in 2015 the Jerusalem Prize. He has divided his time between Albania and France since 1990. Kadare has been mentioned as a possible recipient for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. His works have been published in about 30 languages.

Ismail Kadare was born in 1936 in Gjirokastër, in the south of Albania. His education included studies at the University of Tirana and then the Gorky Institute for World Literature in Moscow, a training school for writers and critics.

In 1960 Kadare returned to Albania after the country broke ties with the Soviet Union, and he became a journalist and published his first poems.

His first novel, The General of the Dead Army, sprang from a short story, and its success established his name in Albania and enabled Kadare to become a full-time writer.

Kadare's novels draw on Balkan history and legends. They are obliquely ironic as a result of trying to withstand political scrutiny. Among his best known books are Chronicle in Stone (1977), Broken April (1978), and The Concert (1988), considered the best novel of the year 1991 by the French literary magazine Lire.

In 1990, Kadare claimed political asylum in France, issuing statements in favour of democratisation. During the ordeal, he stated that "dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible. The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship."

Reviews

[مجید اسطیری · Rating 4 out of 5]

اگر خلاصه کتاب را تا وسط ماجرا برایتان بگویم تصدیق میکنید که یک مارکز در شرق اروپا سروکله ش پیدا شده

دورونتین دختر یک خانواده آلبانیایی است که به شهر دوری شوهر میکند. همه برادرانش مخالفند او با پسری از یک شهر دور ازدواج کند مگر کنستانتن که به مادر قول میدهد هر وقت مادر خواست در هر شرایطی برود و خواهر را برای دیدار مادر بیاورد. حالا سه سال است که کنستانتن و برادران دیگر دورونتین در جنگ کشته شده اند. اما دورونتین سوار بر ترک اسب مردی سراپا گل آلود به ملاقات مادرش آمده. آن هم در حالی که سنگ قبر کنستانتن جا به جا شده است. حالا شما هم از خودتان بپرسید "چه کسی دورونتین را باز آورد؟!" فوق العاده ست

هم در این رمان و هم در رمان "آوریل شکسته" نویسنده اشارات اساسی به سنت های عرفی آلبانی دارد که گاه بیش از قوانین حکومتی کارکرد دارند و بیش از قوانین حکومتی در باورهای مردم رسوخ کرده اند.
به کلیسا خیلی تند نمی تازد اما تقریبا حرفش این است که قدرت کلیسا در برابر قدرت این قوانین عرفی یک شوخی است

[Omid Milanifard · Rating 4 out of 5]

داستانی از در هم تنیدگی مرگ و زندگی، با چاشنی خیال و ابهام..