His Fiction in the World, the World in his Fiction

Study of the Circulation and Reception of Ismail Kadare’s Fiction in the Anglophone Literary Landscape"

The aim of this research project is to shed light on the configurations between world literature and its reception at the end of the 20^th century and the beginning of the 21^st century in the light of the particular case of Ismail Kadare’s boom in the Anglophone literary landscape. The first objective of this project is to analyse the internal “transtextual” configuration of Kadare’s works received in the Anglophone context (Genette). The second objective is to analyse the modalities of reception of these works in this cultural semiosphere. What sense is made of the ‘transtextual’ content of Kadare’s oeuvre by the concerned readership? The third objective is to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the aesthetics of contemporary world literature and its reception in the Anglophone literary landscape.