Best European literature ever?

[Iloko]

Crime and Punishment!

[Melki]

Kadare is really a great writer.

France is the country that helped him a lot during his life. If the dictator could not do anything against him, it is because Kadare has always the support of his French friends but also of the French state. Then Enver Hoxha studied and lived in France and Belgium and he wanted to keep this mask of an illuminated dictator. I have read most of his books. He is my favorite writer.
With Kadare there is a problem. Being from a small country like Albania, it is difficult for him to win the Nobel Prize. The awarding of the Nobel Laureates suffers a little from the influence of geopolitics. However, he is known and rewarded in several European countries.

France and more specifically president Mitterrand did a lot to help writers and artists from the communist eastern bloc. Ismail Kadare was one of them, Milan Kundera too. But today, quite unfairly, Kundera is more remembered than Kadare.

[RenaRyuguu]

Beowulf and Madame Bovary