It is also a beautiful complex lovestory, a sometimes hilarious persiflage on dictators and fear, it contains deep sarcasm on heroism and on presumptious people considering themselves as "great" and makes you think about the levels human imagination can reach. ![]() Now, before you would start to think that is not any good, think again. The novel also requires quite some knowledge on the Trojan horse history and Greek mythology in general. But let's be happy that we never lived in a communist country led by an obscure dictator. Not having been in such a situation it is sometimes hard to understand the exact meaning of all these symbols. You can feel that there was no freedom in Albania at the time of writing and the author had to symbolize the oppression, the dictatorship, communism. ![]() A nice novel, typical Kadare, very symbolic (a bit too much.
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