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The General of the Dead Army (novel) : ウィキペディア英語版 | The General of the Dead Army (novel)
''The General of the Dead Army'' is a 1963 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is the author's most critically acclaimed novel.〔(RICHARD EDER ) for NY Times, September 30, 2008〕 It is noted that Kadare was encouraged to write the book by Drago Siliqi, literary critic and director of the state-owned publishing house ''Naim Frashëri''. ==Plot== In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and collect the bones of his countrymen who had died during the war and return them for burial in Italy. As they organise digs and disinterment, they wonder at the scale of their task. The general talks to the priest about the futility of war and the meaninglessness of the enterprise. As they go deeper into the Albanian countryside they find they are being followed by another general who is looking for the bodies of German soldiers killed in World War II. Like his Italian counterpart, the German struggles with a thankless job looking for remains to take back home for burial, and questions the value of such gestures of national pride.
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