The fact that six of his works were banned proved counterproductive for Albania's communist regime, "because all those people who had already read them started studying them seriously to see just why they were so subversive," he also told the British daily.
Činjenica da je šest njegovih dela bilo zabranjeno pokazala se kontraproduktivnom za albanski komunistički režim, «jer su svi oni ljudi koji su ih već pročitali počeli ozbiljnije da ih proučavaju kako bi utvrdili šta je u njima toliko subverzivno», rekao je Kadare britanskom dnevniku.