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was expressly and severely condemned. Kadare was accused of attacking the
Communist government in a covert manner. At the end of the meeting, Ramiz Alia warned Kadare: "The people and the Party have raised you to Olympus, but if you are not faithful to them, they will cast you into the abyss".
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a few meters away; the buffet and the archive of the Palace of Dreams also reminding people of their similar counterparts of that building. Resemblances between the totalitarian atmosphere in the novel and the climate of terror in
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is widely regarded as one of Kadare's masterpieces. After an emergency meeting of the
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838:"Chronicles And Fragments: The Novels of Ismail Kadare"
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