MITRUSH KUTELI SI RRËFIMTAR DHE TRANSFORMIMET ZHANRORE
MITRUSH KUTELI AS A NARRATOR AND GENRE TRANSFORMATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The influence of folklore in literature is not a new or unknown phenomenon, nor has it been so for Albanian writers between the two World Wars. Mitrush Kuteli is known as one of the first founders of Albanian prose of modernism, but at the same time, he is also known as a master storyteller who transcends genre structures and reintroduces popular motifs in the form of literary invariants. We say in the form of literary invariants because despite the literary processing he undertakes, the essence of folk ballads, songs, and tales remains unchanged, preserving even the unmotivated compositional ruptures and filling them with authorial artistic interventions such as descriptions, phraseologies, parodies, etc. However, we do not see attempts at alienating subjects and hypertextual transformations, which implies that Kuteli’s aim was the actualization of folk literature with fidelity to compositional construction, character functions, narrative balances, and the fundamental ideas of the processed material.

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