From the Albanian writer who has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize comes a hypnotic narrative of ancient Egypt, a work that is at once a historical novel and an exploration of the horror of untrammeled state power. It is 2600 BC. The Pharaoh Cheops is inclined to forgo the construction of a pyramid in his honor, but his court sages hasten to persuade him otherwise. The pyramid, they tell him, is not a tomb but a paradox: it keeps the Egyptian people content by oppressing them utterly. The pyramid is the pillar that ...
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From the Albanian writer who has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize comes a hypnotic narrative of ancient Egypt, a work that is at once a historical novel and an exploration of the horror of untrammeled state power. It is 2600 BC. The Pharaoh Cheops is inclined to forgo the construction of a pyramid in his honor, but his court sages hasten to persuade him otherwise. The pyramid, they tell him, is not a tomb but a paradox: it keeps the Egyptian people content by oppressing them utterly. The pyramid is the pillar that holds power aloft. If it wavers, everything collapses. And so the greatest pyramid ever begins to rise. It is a monument that crushes dozens of men with the placing of each of its tens of thousands of stones. It is the subject of real and imaginary conspiracies that necessitate ruthless purges and fantastic tortures. It is a monster that will consume all Egypt before it swallows the body of Cheops himself. As told by Ismail Kadare, The Pyramid is a tour de force of Kafkaesque paranoia and Orwellian political prophecy. A haunting meditation on the matter-of-fact brutality of political despotism. - The New York Times Book Review Kadare's prose glimmers with the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. - Los Angeles Times Book Review One of the most compelling novelists now writing in any language. - Wall Street Journal
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New York. 1996. Arcade Publishing. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1559703148. Translated from the French Of Jusuf Vrioni by David Bellos In Consultation With The Author. 160 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Albania Eastern Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Egypt in the twenty-sixth century B.C. Young Pharaoh Cheops thinks he'll forego the construction of a pyramid in his honor, an edifice that strikes him as the symbol of a singularly macabre obsession with death. But the court sages hasten to change his mind when they consult a hidden cache of papyri and discover that the pyramid was originally designed not as a tomb but as a paradox, a way of appeasing the masses by literally and figuratively oppressing them. The pyramid is a symbol of nothing, a useless and infinite project intended to waste the country's wealth and keep security and prosperity, ever the fonts of sedition, constantly at bay. When Cheops decrees the construction of the greatest pyramid the world has ever seen, the mere announcement of the plan terrorizes the nation: rumors of conspiracy abound; a secret police is formed; the most drastic purges are carried out in the interest of the Pharaoh's great obsession. By the time the first stone is laid, Cheops's subjects are terrified enough to yield to his most murderous whims. Each time one of the massive stones is hoisted into place, dozens of slaves are crushed to a pulp, and there are tens of thousands of stones. Kadare's keen parable of paranoia and terror will invite comparisons to the works of Franz Kafka, Paul Auster, and Ellias Canetti. inventory #22302.
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