''The Dead River'' (originally in Albanian ''"Lumi i Vdekur"'') is the title of the first novel written by the 20th century

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writer

Jakov Xoxa Jakov Xoxa (15 April 1923 – 11 November 1979) was an author from Albania of the 20th century. Biography Xoxa had ethnic Aromanian origins from Korçë. He born in the town of Fier, Albania on April 15, 1923 and died on November 11, 1979. H ...

. One of the best-known of Jakov Xoxa's, the literary work was written in 1964 only to be published 7 years later.

Plot

The story revolves around the romantic love between the two main characters, Vita and Adil, and the ill fates of three

families which all meet in a little town called ''Trokth'' in

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. The seemingly independent stories that revolve around the three families are well interwoven with the fates of the two lovers.

Setting

Like the other novels of Jakov Xoxa (notably ''"White Juga"'' , sq, Juga e Bardhē, ), it encompasses a vast number of characters and is also imbued with the realism of pre-

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

Albania, in which the main story is set.Fragment of "The Dead River"
/ref> It is one of the few works of early

socialist realism Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II. Socialist realism is ch ...

in Albania which contains literary merits. As many works of that period, it used the Soviet literary model of Sholokhov's ''

And Quiet Flows the Don ''And Quiet Flows the Don'' (''Quiet Flows the Don'' or ''The Silent Don'', russian: Тихий Дон, literally ''The Quiet Don'') is a novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov. The first three volumes were written from 192 ...

''.Robert Elsie, ''A start and an end (observations on Albanian contemporary literature and culture)'' - translated in Albanian by Abdyrrahim Myftiu, Globus, 1995
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References

1971 novels 20th-century Albanian novels Novels set in Albania {{1970s-romance-novel-stub

Plot

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