Paranoia and Pain Embedded in the Prose of Ismail Kadare

Abstract

Kadare's work is a unique combination of paranoia and human suffering under totalitarian oppression. In his writing, we
discover the paradox of civil, psycho-pathological fear of the individual under the state hierarchy and the intellectual pain to 'absurd
death' of everyday life. Paranoia and pain compete with each other as a mental disillusion and illusion of a society in the 'sleep of
totalitarianism’. Kadare makes anatomy of criticism and inserted as a rider battles in the brains of totalitarianism that consisted of this
mixture Macbethian, which Surfaces as a crime of power and 'witch hunt' that the writer has to offer with anxiety and tension at the same
time. Danger exists as a psycho-physical violence that causes excessive fear of dictatorship in order to manipulate defense interests of
the people in power. It is this mental illness that appears as hatred for 'others' and love 'yourself' as a fear of the quick end and the panic
of death.