The historical plot, combined with a modern, laconic style of writing, gives particular attractiveness to the works of Ismail Kadare, an Albanian writer, multiple contender for the Nobel Prize. The short story presented to the reader’s attention is typical for Kadare: it is about the theme of East and West that concerns him not only, about the aspiration from the world of unfreedom to the free world. As one of the French critics noted, Cadaret “turns to history with extraordinary ease, finding in it many consonances with modernity.”