Ismail Kadare's 6 favorite books

The Albanian legend and perennial Nobel Prize contender recommends works by Dante Alighieri, Franz Kafka, and more, in a list translated by Ani Kokobobo

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Inferno by Dante Alighieri (Signet, $6). The first book in Dante's Divine Comedy can be characterized, in the most universal terms, as a forewarning in every age for the collective human consciousness.

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Oxford, $10). Don Quixote is another universal story, because it contrasts the life we live with the one we erroneously dream we are living.

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