Kanuni në prozën shqipe: miti i përbashkët “i shenjtërimit”
“The Kanun” in the Albanian prose: the myth of common sanctification

Summary/Abstract: Many elements in the corpus of the Albanian Kanun have played the role of a literary myth in the Albanian prose. Hence, thanks to the myth of the guest, blood feud, and the given word (besa) the Kanun comes in the Albanian prose as the common code of an Albanian timeless sense of belonging, which takes the value of the sacred in relation to the Albanian spiritual identity. Anyway, particularly in the prose “Prilli i thyer” by Ismail Kadare, “Andrra e Pretashit” by Father Anton Harapi, “Gjonomadhë e Gjatollinj” by Mitrush Kuteli, “Gjaku” and “The Guest” by Ernest Koliqit, as well as in the well-known comments of Father Gjergj Fishta and Koliqi, the appearance of the Kanun element is outlined in the form of a new myth which takes over a multiplicity of functions: that of a literary myth, a social myth, a political myth, etc. It is inside this refunctionalized myth that the Albanian writers ‘invented” their new national mirror, where the Albanian citizen, independently of the time he lived in, should look at himself and therefore The Other. It was a recurrent invitation to a common sanctity.

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