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Have readers not had enough of Dritero Agolli, the head of the party-controlled Union of Writers and Artists from the purge of the liberals in 1979 to the end of the dictatorship in 1990, cynosure of the official literary establishment of communist Albania, and now a leading politician of the opposition Socialist Party to boot! Somber dealings, his opponents and critics would say--somber not only in view of the daily electricity cuts in the Albanian capital, but also because of all the mudslinging in and around the Albanian parliament. No, in fact, readers have not had enough. Dritero Agolli, short-story writer and poet of the soil, is...