EXCLUSIVE The elegy written in 1957 but published for the first time in 1970 KADARE'S VERSES ABOUT LENIN ARE DISCOVERED “His name like a precious stone”, “The blazing October sun would not have had the West above the world.” The poem appears in the literary magazine “Nëntori” together with a dedication by Xhevahir Spahiu Page 14 ISMAIL KADARE Qenini[?] ... Perhaps as I was reading the verses to him, while he stood leaning against the window, in the moments when the sun was setting. Krupskaya 1 For him I fell into many thoughts, And many times I have prepared myself to write; But in the verses of my notebook His name is endless[?], like a precious stone. In the verses He must be The scale of revolutionary wars, Among the chills of the third autumn, Among the flags that redden like fires. Therefore I often tore up my lyrics, Because they seemed not to smell of storm; But secretly came the mowed grass Where the benches[?] look onto the straight road.

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