“LIBRI I BURGUT” I ARSHI PIPËS DHE POEZIA E BURGUT (1944-1990)
"THE PRISON BOOK" BY ARSHI PIPA AND THE PRISON POETRY (1944-1990)

Summary/Abstract: The Albanian literature of the second half of the twentieth century, in addition to the official side, also had the unofficial side, or better to say: in addition to the visible side, it also had the hidden side. Parallel to the literature of socialist realism, which was installed after the Second World War in Albania as official literature, there were also created another literatures which were not controlled by ideological dogma. These literature were mainly: literature from the prison, literature from the files, and banned literature - that were created within the country, as well as literature of diaspora. While the literature of socialist realism interrupts the continuity of Albanian literature, the mentioned literature were the continuation of the Albanian literature from the years ’30s-’40s of the last century. At a time when the so called oriented literature enjoyed the respect of the ideologues of the new society of "equal" people, those who were not in the path of the oriented were punished by the power, were considered the enemies of the power - because in dictatorial powers, there are only two ways: you have to be with power or against it, there was no third way. At that time, when the dictatorship was installed in Albania, beginning of the end of the Second World War until the fall of communism in the early 1990s, among the prisoners, together with war criminals, the declassed, etc., a permanent presence in prison had the writers, some of whom did not even manage to survive. Among them were Ndoc Nikaj, Bernardin Palaj, Vinçenc Prendushi, Mirash Ivanaj, then later prisoner authors Arshi Pipa, Kasem Trebeshina, Lazër Radi, Kudret Kokoshi, Trifon Xhagjika, Genc Leka, Vilson Blloshmi, Havzi Nela, Frederik Rreshpja, Pano Taçi, Maks Velo, Zyhdi Morava, Visar Zhiti; in Kosovo Adem Demaçi, Xajë Nura, Adem Gajtani, Teki Dërvishi, Beqir Musliu, until the generation of 1981, as Hydajet Hyseni, Merxhan Avdyli, Januz Januzaj, Bajram Kosumi, as well as the prisoners of the 90s, of the war of KLA, 1997-1999. Literature of the prisoner authors will be in the focus of this paper.

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