"But the tacit suggestion that Mr. Kadare was a dissident, like Vaclav Havel or Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, is very misleading. Mr. Kadare could never have survived and published under the Hoxha regime without some degree of cooperation, the complete details of which are not yet entirely clear. "The New York Sun, "Mystery of Man: Just Who Is Ismail Kadare?", juni 2005Arkiverad 15 december 2009 hämtat från the Wayback Machine.
"But the tacit suggestion that Mr. Kadare was a dissident, like Vaclav Havel or Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, is very misleading. Mr. Kadare could never have survived and published under the Hoxha regime without some degree of cooperation, the complete details of which are not yet entirely clear. "The New York Sun, "Mystery of Man: Just Who Is Ismail Kadare?", juni 2005Arkiverad 15 december 2009 hämtat från the Wayback Machine.