Literary authors may introduce their characters by describing either their inner worlds or their actions. The connection between the characters and their actions is unavoidable, because their personalities come through in these descriptions. F. Stanc...

Buda seems to prefer to blend realistic and modern techniques in the introduction of her characters. The penetration to the characters’ consciousness and subconsciousness is achieved through the description of seemingly nonsensical, superficial, an...

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I was thoroughly absorbed by your novel “Kloroform”. I am happy to see there is at least one of our contemporaries, who dared recreate through her art the difficult and dark times our generation lived in. The novel begins with a traumatic and sho...

Refleksion rreth dritë hijes së Kloroformit shqiptar Pa dyshim që romani ” Kloroform” i autores Klara Buda ka tërhequr vëmendjen e mbarë lexuesit shqiptar dhe të huaj, studiusve dhe esistëve të ndryshëm, të cilët përbrenda k�...

The novel opens with the description of cold clinical chambers, where a girl’s name is changed in her presence for a mysterious reason. Taking possession of the girl’s identity is a very violent act, which, together with the mystery, creates tens...

-Thoughts on Chloroform The fever of “testifying” about the past has taken over individuals, collectives and even government institutions. Unfortunately, these sanctioned truth campaigns have either failed or become ridiculous. The discussion o...

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