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The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Palace of DreamsAt the heart of the Sultan's vast but fragile empire stands the Palace of Dreams, where an entire nation's consciousness is tapped into and meticulously laid bare in the form of images and symbols of the dreaming mind. This book talks about the thought-police who have been the most effective instruments of oppression at the service of dictators.
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- Published: 04 December 2008
- Format: Paperback 192 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780099518273 ISBN 10: 0099518279
- Sales rank: 86,401
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Dark Zones of Dreams
Just when you thought it safe to dream, Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare, shatters that illusion with his haunting exposé of totalitarianism, The Palace of Dreams. Kadare is in the elite company of George Orwell (1984), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), and Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon).
Kadare paints a chilling landscape centred on an intrusive organism of state, dedicated to the interpretation of dreams across an empire. An empire committed to Freud's view that wish fulfillment motivates dreams. A paranoid regime committed to a central tenet: "For in the nocturnal realm of sleep are to be found both the light and the darkness of humanity, its honey and its poison, its greatness and its vulnerability. All that is murky and harmful, or that will become so in a few years or centuries, makes its first appearance in men's dreams."
As Kadare notes, "Anyone who ruled over the dark zones of men's lives wielded enormous power."
Welcome to a waking nightmare. by Robert Davis
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