Book Review: The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare
The Palace of Dreams - Ismail Kadare The Palace of Dreams | Goodreads The Palace of Dreams - Complete Book - Internet Archive ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Worth Reading The Palace of Dreams (Pallati i Ëndrrave) carries an atmosphere that instantly brought to mind the quiet surveillance of The Lives of Others , and the dream visual world of Tarsem Singh’s The Fall - a connection that may particularly strike the cinephiles. His portrayal of the labyrinthine state machinery aligns with which skewered international inefficiency and echoes the traditions of Kafka’s claustrophobic nightmares and Orwell’s stark warnings about power. The result is a kind of alternate universe that feels disturbingly relevant in any large bureaucracy - whether you’ve dealt with the inner workings of global south governments or simply navigated everyday administrative chaos. The readers who are accustomed to stories where absurd, politics, and bureaucracy often intersect - Kadare’s novel feels...