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The prestigious Wall Street Journal has published the list of the 10 best books of 2023, among them is one of Ismail Kadare's works.
"A dictator calls" is the work of the well-known Albanian writer that has been selected by the WSJ as one of the best books for readers in the year we are leaving behind.
The work deals with former dictator Josef Stalin's phone call to Boris Pasternak in 1934 to discuss the arrest of poet Osip Mandelstam.
The Wall Street Journal writes that acclaimed novelist Kadare offers an assessment of every aspect of the interdependence between art and the state, drawing on the decades he himself spent as a writer under the communist dictatorship.
"WSJ" further writes: " The book 'The Call of a Dictator' is about the inevitable interdependence between literature and the state." Of the two, only the artist is forced to try to make sense of the relationship, because art, unlike a tyrant, writes Kadare .
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