This lesson plan makes use of the 1990 English translation of Broken April. The thought questions herein provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays and to develop their powers of analysis.
It may be helpful to mention that Kadare's books and ideas sometimes show a nationalist, chauvinist, racist, orientalist, or Islamophobic undercurrent. Most of these controversies are not widely known about in the West, where attention to politics, historiography and literature in various Balkan countries tends to be scarce and selective – but Kadare is, after all, a man who insisted in an editorial in Le Monde after the 13/11/2015 terrorist attacks in France that:
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