The Pyramid : A Novel (Paperback)

from vpfluke

I started reading this book from the library late, and then I had to return it after only a few pages. This is a book that I want to come back to. It is well written, and I see many hints of an allegory of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, with its sense of terror and large-scale inhuman grand...

from wandering_star

The Pyramid is ostensibly the story of how the great pyramid of Cheops came to be built - but at the same time, it is an allegory of terror and tyranny everywhere. The grand project of building the pyramid, perhaps, can be seen as the grand project of building socialism, or year zero, or any of t...

from BayardUS

Kadare's novella The Pyramid rehashes the subject of life under an inscrutable bureaucracy that was also the focus of Kadare's The Palace of Dreams, though this is a darker take on the topic. Kadare paints a portrait of the state as existing solely to oppress the populace, whether that be through...