"Këngët para Millosaut" të Jeronim De Radës dhe horizonti i receptimit kritik

Author(s): Serafina Lajçi / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 25/2020

De Rada’s works mark the beginning of Arbëresh Romanticism as well as an important turn in the culture of Albanian literature. As such, it has been part of a great number of observations, studies, historical, literary, analytic and critical discussions, all of which have attempted to place his work in the corpus of Albanian literature which it deserves. Regardless of its special importance which goes beyond history and literature, De Rada’s work has not always been in this well deserved position, due to being misinterpreted quite often. The researcher Shaban Sinani was right to have written in the preface to the work of Mandala ‘Studime filologjike për letërsinë romantike arbëreshe’ [‘Philological studies on Arbëresh Romantic Literature’] that the Arbëresh romantic poets have had the poor fate of being the most misinterpreted authors and that their works have oftentimes been subject to a truncated critical mechanism. Nowadays, when contemporary studies have returned to a focus on the Arbëresh romantic authors, and especially to De Rada’s oeuvre, the results have not only revealed many findings of a great importance for the history and the literary criticism of Albanian literature, but they have also presented this author in many other dimensions. Alongside other celebrated researchers of Arbëresh romantic authors, this return to De Rada has been credited especially to two of the best researchers, Francesko Altimari and Matteo Mandala who came up with the idea of a new edition of The Literary Works of De Rada.

"Proemat" e Anton Paplekës

Author(s): Zahrie KAPLLANAJ / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 25/2020

The book Proema by Anton Papleka is a text of an awareness of being an intertextual and postmodern creation. It intercommunicates with well-known sources and codes in Albanian literature and beyond it. It does so either directly or indirectly. The classification and categorization of these intercommunications constitutes the poetic system of this volume. It is created by a combined form between poetry and prose, following, based on the author, the model of old texts of Albanian literature, but by also working on theoretical concepts which belong to more recent literary methods. The book Proema has been selected in this article due to this special poetics. It aims at firstly identifying its particular constituent form, its origin, and the interpretation of the method and reasoning of the combination or the amalgam of two forms within a text. Secondly, it attempts at detecting the methods or the types of intercommunication, their reasoning, illustrative examples and analyses of every cycle, by using the poems as examples that bear witness of the different forms and discourses of reiterations and refunctionalizations. Their identification demonstrates the existence of some new literary phenomena, which are literary results to Papleka’s oeuvre as well as its interconnection to the movement of Albanian contemporary as well as postmodern poetry in general.

"Tjetri" në krijimtarinë e Agollit

Author(s): Anila Mullahi / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 35/2017

In the period before the 1990s, in the context of a strong tradition of socialist realism literature, the positive heroes were placed in the center of the literary world; those that were created according to a standard model. They were developed in a linear way and often were incompatible with the internal logic. The tendency to create "social characters" caused the extinction of the particular and loss of curiosity. The characters of these works appear without any dilemmas, without great twists, without spiritual breaks, without vacillation for the life, the world or the human existence. Near the positive character are the others, who worship them or they want to resemble to the heroes; while on the other side, opposite them are the antagonists, the enemies.In Agolli's works, besides these two groups, are those characters that are seen as "weird", “irregulars” or "incorrect". They are not negative characters because they are not "enemies" but they are not even positive characters because do not resemble the standard example at all. This kind is considered as "the other", and actually this is what it is deep inside the unconscious of the author.“The other” is an individual who is perceived by the group as someone who does not belong, as different in an essential way. The group sees themselves as the norm and judges those who do not meet the norm elements. “The other” can have many forms, in the case of Agolli appears as one who is not indoctrinated. He is not interested about politics, but either he is interested in objecting it. His non-inclusion and non-ideology make him different. They reveal an essential feature that differs from others; speak openly and directly and do not have the veil of deceit in front of their eyes and they see the reality as it is, without idealizing it.In some cases at Agolli’s characters, "the other" is ultimately subjected to the group's norm, but also their existence as being different, makes Agolli's works distinct from the others. One form of "the other" can be considered Commander Rrapo in the novel "Commissar Memo" or Mato Gruda in "The Man with the Cannon".There are other cases where Agolli's "the other" it may be someone who shows great passion for life. A way to enjoy life with all the pleasures that it brings, through humor, eating, drinking, dancing, women, as it is Cute Babulja in the novel "The Ark of the Devil". Such a man with great love for life and the pleasures that life brings is not in line with the positive hero “whose character is shaped among the great difficulties". Agolli's literature work is filled with atypical characters, with special features, with individuals in conflict with the society norms, which consists in alienation from the principles of the official frame method.

"Tjetri" në modernitetin letrar

Pashku, Kadare dhe Rrahmani

Author(s): Albanë Mehmetaj / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 35/2017

The paper titled "The ‚Other‘ in Literary Modernity (Pashku, Kadare, Rrahmani)" examines the problem of the „other“ presence in modern Albanian literature (of the second half of the twentieth century) and aims to give the frameworks of this problem to the authors used as a model and in this literary era.This paper is only an initial, since the problem of the „other" in literature is not only literary, it is also relates to the cultural and the social identity context. So, the basic method of research, is the comparative one, which also verifies the comparative origin of the "other“ in literature.The concept of the „other“, in historical terms, both in psychological and literary terms, takes on a particular character, often dramatic, and conveyed with contradictory views, so our goal is to follow this line of manifestation. Such a problem will undoubtedly be clarified with theoretical arguments.The authors chosen for this case are: Anton Pashku, Ismail Kadare and Zejnullah Rrahmanin, with the works "Tower", "Castles" and "Romani for Kosovo". Selected works are testify to the value of the authors and the ways of presenting the ctagiry of the "other " in modern literature. These authors are representatives of poetic patterns and selected styles of modern Albanian literature, while the problem of the „other“ in literature, in the works of these authors, represents some of the most important variations of his appearance in the Albanin modern literature.Realizing the theme of the „other“ in Albanian literature Pashku, Kadare and Rrahmani make it having primary concern for the Albanian identity and being guided by national motives and patriotism. In this context, the literary concept of the other of these authors, has the meaning of the conqueror, meaning the impersonator of the idea, and therefore, on this look remain foreign forever. The „other one“ in their work is shaped by the fictional world, literary characters, history as time-stamped and as probable evidence, and through literary figuration. But the perception of the other here is distinguished in the thematic plan: in the other side, it is similar to the literary works of Kadare, through historical events (but to one evil only root causes, while the other good can be bad), while to Rrahmani as a personal theme (continuation of the invader). All three of them, as modern authors, are similar to the universality of the subject, so that Albanian issues are treated as human issues and have a wery good histographic and ethnographic knowledge.

"Tjetri" në tekstet letrare të Fishtës

Author(s): Bajram Kosumi / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 35/2017

Considering that Gjergj Fishta (1871-1940) is regarded as one of the most prominent writer in Albanian Literature, especially with his epic and satire, the review of the presence and social and literature status of “The Other” in his work is significant not only for his writing but for the whole Albanian literature. The concept of “The Other” in literature has derived from cultural and sociological studies, therefore the study of this concept in literature is also a result of text analysis, in relation with cultural and sociological studies, thus the concept of “The Other” is primarily related to cultural, philosophical, ethical, political and sociological principles. From the prism of the text analysis, several models of “The Other” in Fishta’s texts are identified, however, the source of these models has two common denominators: one, the mentality of a patriarchal and closed society; and two, the moral of a society that has been forced to suffer the status of captivity for a long time.In this article, the models of “The Other” will be defined and argued by the examples from the Fishta’s texts. Based on Fishta’s literary text, conclusions will be provided about the culture of “The Other” in Albanian society of the first half of the 20th century. In this article the experience of English Cultural Studies is used for the concept of “The Other”, especially the studies of Eduard Said, Bozidar Jezernik, Cvetan Todorov, Anthony Giddens, Georg Simmel, etc.

"Vdekja e tjetrit" në shkrimet letrare të Mitrush Kutelit

Author(s): Kastriot Gjika / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 35/2017

Death is not only one of the most universal topics, in addition to love, travel, life, beauty, etc., but is also seen as one of the most difficult to deal with, both ethically and psychologically and religiously. The most natural tendency of the last century has been to avoid death as topic, to non-rebound directly, to project it euphemistically into other areas of the individual or collective world.But Kuteli's case is somewhat specific and quite contrary to this trend. Death is so present in Kuteli's narrative prose, that he seems to have explored it with all his techniques and literary means in all of its individual, social, ethical, religious manifestations. We can affirm that he has a special interest in this subject and he's familiar with it."The Death of the Other", however, as a concept explored in his writings, but also in other paraliteratur and nonfictional writings, gives us a complete insight into his ethical, religious, philosophical and literary concepts of death and of life itself."The death of the other," is seen in confrontation and in a comparative way with "my death", in the M. Kuteli's "rrëfenja"-s, but also in other its writings.

A Narrative of Cosmopolitanism: An Analysis of Ismail Kadare’s A Girl in Exile in the Light of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Theory of Rooted Cosmopolitanism

Author(s): Edona Llukacaj / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

In his The Ethics of Identity (2007b), and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2007a), philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah coins “rooted cosmopolitanism” as an inclusive and diversity-oriented political philosophy that would enable the reconsideration of the previously-established world equilibriums to meet the needs of the contemporary individual. In contrast to other contemporary theories that are either constructed exclusively on the ethnic and cultural belonging of a community or totally ignore them, rooted cosmopolitanism considers ethnicity and culture to be integral parts of human identity, although not its sole defining factors. Indeed to Appiah, our cultural backgrounds serve primarily to lay the foundations of inter and intra-cultural dialogue, while multicultural co-existence and mutual understanding is to be achieved through the emphasizing of universal and shared values. Taking these as a starting point, this paper attempts to analyze one of Ismail Kadare’s most recent novels, A Girl in Exile (2016). It maintains that the Albanian writer, in this novel with autobiographical elements, incorporates the characteristics of rooted cosmopolitanism to both shed light on the experience of Albanians under the communist dictatorship as well as to represent, revitalize and promote a culture and ethnic group still victimized by marginalization and exclusion.

Analizë shqipërimesh nga krijimtaria poetike e Hajnrih Hajnes prej përkthyesish të ndryshëm

Author(s): Naim Kryeziu / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 25/2020

The first poems of the renewed German poet Heinrich Heine were translated in Albanian over one hundred years ago, i.e. in the third phase of the Albanian National Renaissance, which began in the years 30-40 of the 19th century and had its crowning point in the year 1912 with the declaration of the Independence of Albania. The Albanian National Renaissance favored the best traditions of the past as well as folklore. It was the poetic form which was developed the most, as is seen in many of its representatives such as Naim Frashëri, Ndre Mjeda, Andon Zako Çajupi and Asdreni. Faik Konica, a poet and a literary critic with a wide range of publicist works, has had a great influence in the development of this literature. He was also the first to have translated in Albanian a considerable number of poems by Heinrich Heine. These translations form the origins of the echo of this great German lyrical poet in Albanian culture and literature. This analysis of adaptions of Heinrich Heine’s poetic works compares Albanian versions of Heine’s poems in a chronological order of the works of various translators such as: Faik Konica - Lasgush Poradeci; Faik Konica - Petraq Kolevica; Lazër Shantoja - Lasgush Poradeci; Hilë Mosi - Lasgush Poradeci; Lasgush Poradeci - Fan Noli; Lasgush Poradeci - Jorgo Bllaci; Lasgush Poradeci - Robert Shvarc - Ardian Klosi.

Arti si joshje dhe si subversion

Author(s): Ardian Marashi / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 15/2018

This review talk about novel The Nude,which is a story of seduction structured as a subversive art. Ridvan Dibra’s novel is an open work, or contra-ideological novel, so its meanings are infinite. Telling a psychological story, the author aims to say how far can go the person who can’t control himself. Also,this story has an allegorical meaning about invasion.

BETON - Kulturno propagandni komplet br. 162, god. X, Beograd, utorak, 18. avgust 2015.

Author(s): Milan Miljković,Saša Ćirić,Esilda Luku,Siniša Tucić,Vojo Šindolić / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 2015

MIXER, Milan Miljković: Ima li Albanaca u ovom razredu?; CEMENT, Saša Ćirić: Adio Pula, vraćam ti se ja; ARMATURA, Esilda Luku: Albansko-jugoslovenski odnosi u albanskim udžbenicima; VREME SMRTI I RAZONODE, Siniša Tucić: Zajedničko kuvalo, Vojo Šindolić: Pjesma za moj 60-ti rođendan; BLOK BR. V, Diskoteka 3D: Suza moja nema roditelja

BETON - Kulturno propagandni komplet br. 183, god. XII, Beograd, utorak, 16. maj 2017.

Author(s): Lindita Arapi,Arian Leka,Marikljene Ničo,Sabina Veizaj,Ardian-Christian Kyçyku /Kuciuk,Ylljet Aliçka / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 2017

Arian Leka: UVODNA REČ; Ylljet Aliçka: Naporni pokušaji ulaska bezpozivnice na mondenski prijem; Lindita Arapi: Tirana bez prijatelja, S malog prozora moje kuće; Ardian-Christian Kyçyku: L.O.L; Sabina Veizaj: Polubol, Majke; Marikljena Ničo: Izvan krajolika, Ona mi govori o letenju

BETON - Kulturno propagandni komplet br. 184, god. XII, Beograd, utorak, 20. jun 2017.

Author(s): Aleksandar Novaković,Đorđe Krajišnik,Dejan Vasić,Arben Idrizi / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 2017

MIXER, Aleksandar Novaković: Sukobi identiteta u srpskom filmu (1992-2016), odlomak; CEMENT, Đorđe Krajišnik: Priča koja nije počela, a kad će, ne znamo; ŠTRAFTA, Dejan Vasić: Potrošeni socijalizam; VREME SMRTI I RAZONODE, Arben Idrizi: 35.; BLOK BR. V, Studiostrip: Miki Maus

Brikolazhi narrativ

Author(s): Ag Apolloni / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 15/2018

“The Narrative Bricolage” is a study on four novels of Ridvan Dibra (The Nude, In Search of the Lost Child, The Legend of Solitude and The sleep on the Snow), who in the first novel ironizes phallocentrism, putting in front of each other the capture and defeat; in the second he plays with narcissism, seeking his lost paradise, or his childhood; in the third one builds a new variant (Bala) over an old myth (Hamlet, Orestes); in the fourth he shows the risk of sleeping on the snow, or the risk of inattention in the dictatorship. In the first two decades of his creativity (1989-2009), Dibra’s fiction is characterized by ultrapostmodernism, and since 2010, exactly with the work In Search of the Lost Child, the author makes a turn, enriching his fiction with new elements and new sensibility. Even though he has written poems and plays, Ridvan Dibra in Albanian literature has created a clear and complete profile with experimental fiction. He makes homage to the postmodernist model by following it and enriching it with new elements and sensibility. His fiction shows that he is a great experimentalist author who represents a type of literature: lab literature.There is nothing that cannot be made a fascinating literature in Ridvan Dibra’s lab,which, therefore, approves the Schopenhauer’s opinion that the business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

Characters in Fatos Kongoli Novel

Author(s): Gjyle Totaj / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

The greater philosopher,Aristotle,dealing with the characters would have said that “due to the fact that they imitate, they imitate acting people, and these people will, of course, be good or evil because characters almost always follow these two peculiarities and it is known that the difference of the character of all the people is done by the good or the evil”. Even though in the novels of our author, Fatos Kongoli, no such traditional line is followed, such distinction is perceptible in every literature and at any time, and of course, in the novels, we are analyzing. Literary scholar Anton Berisha says that "literary character is an important component element, especially of epic creations, may they be prose or poetry”. Berisha also adds that "they are known extremely successful realizations of the characters in the traditional novel, but also in contemporary and generally modern characters, are noteworthy, but also we do not miss the lyrical characters through which the subjective world is introduced

Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Bulgaria

Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum is published by Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and edited by the literary scholars of the Balkan Studies Masters and Doctoral Studies Program (Department of General, Indo-European, and Balkan Linguistics with the Faculty of Slavic Studies). This journal aims to encourage the study of Comparative Literature. The similarities and overlaps between less popular literatures and the well-researched canonical phenomena remain rather unexplored. Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum wants to give priority to such issues; to reconsider the clichéd notions of centres and peripheries, of one-way influences, temporary delays and topic deficiencies. It makes sense to seek the meaning of common affinities and trends, in other words – to look at what is positive, stimulating, and creative about the communication between literary and cultural phenomena. In fact, the Balkans are home to just a small share of the less researched literatures in the field of Comparative Literature. In Europe, we often know too little about our neighbours, unless they happen to be the French, German or British literatures.

Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum expresses itself in three languages: Bulgarian, French and English. It provides new opportunities for communication between scholars of Comparative Literature with the aim of a complete, conceptual and terminological understanding of new ideas within our field of research.

DEATH IN THE GENERAL OF THE DEAD ARMY

Author(s): Ke Jing / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2016

Death has been treated by Kadare in most of his works, such as The General of the Dead Army, The Castle/The Siege, Doruntine, Broken April, The Three-Arched Bridge, The Palace of Dreams, The Pyramid, and so on. Some die a glorious death, like the death of Doruntine’s brothers who fought to defend their homeland, whereas some die a disgraceful death, like the Ottoman Pasha’s death as a defeated invader. Some die a death imposed by social norms, like the death of Gjorg, who had to kill in order to avenge his brother and maintain his family’s honor. Some die as a sacrifice to usher in a new world order, like the immurement of Murrash Zenebisha so that the construction of the bridge could stand. There are also others who die a sublime death, like Gjoleka in The General of the Dead Army, who did not die in the battles against Fascist invasion, but as a result of infection he got when he was performing humanitarian work during the Post-war peace time. Death, as Kadare shows to us, can be of various natures, but behind the veil of death lies the truth about social norms, the fight for political and economic interests, the struggle between justice and injustice, the relationship between nations, etc.

Dokumentacioni arbëresh në arkivin historik të Ministrisë së Punëve të Jashtme në vitet 1951 – 1986

Author(s): Alketa Luari / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 1-2/2019

The relations between Albanians and the Arbëresh of Italy have always been in the focus of the communist government existing before ’90-s. The interest of the Albanian part for the abovementioned population was concentrated not only in the diplomatic field, but also in the cultural and educational one. Despite the fluctuations in the relations between the two countries, Albania and Italy, the Arbëresh issue would not affect but on the contrary, would serve as a bridge in the strengthening of the relations between the two countries.

EMPATHY, SYMPATHY AND DEMONIZATION OF THE OTHER IN THE BALKAN LITERATURES

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Author(s): Mariglena MEMINAJ / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

The profile of the other in the Balkans literatures is as special and complex as its projection onto real life has been through the region’s history. Since the Balkans itself has been a bridge between East and West, being ‘the other’ in relation to Europe and part of it simultaneously, the concepts of self and the other reveal as specific in the Balkans literatures.In these literatures, the other has been the alien, the invader, who came either from a powerful empire or from ‘beyond the fence’—the neighbour, the similar but also the different one all at once. In most cases, this ‘other’ exerted all its influence to spread their culture and, either when being part of an empire or merely a neighbour, cohabited with them for such long periods as to strive to undo the features of their identity. The present paper aims to highlight some features of ‘the other’ in the Balkans literature that make it essentially unique and (considering the work of albanian and serbian prose writers) which, in relation to self, appears in diverse and often opposite positions: it has been demonized at times, but empathised or even sympathised at pthers, and, as everything else of the Balkans, is depicted in strong colours and contrasts, yet essentially similar.

Erotical Signs in The Poetry of Ismail Kadare

Author(s): Merxhan Avdyli / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

The motive of love, not only Kadare's poetry, but generally throughout the contemporary Albanian and world poetry, is one of the fundamental, general and extremely universal motifs. Such a motive has also prompted the poet Kadare to write poems that propose the aesthetics of one of the most general motives of man - the motive of love. The first and the first love in the verses of Kadare is described and emerges as a part of human life and as such comes out of special dimensions. Kadare, being a good builder of a full and complete poetry, would say, even if his poetry, if we can say erotic, we have a remarkable use of such signs, although in general the poetry of love does not occupy any remarkable place in Kadare's poetry, naturally in comparison to the poetry of other motifs, though it is quite manifested. But, however, love in Kadare's poetry marks, among other things, a particular poetic word in general, and even in this regard, it is also a multiple pluralist expression, using words, expressions and figures unused by others, also giving different words and meanings, from everyday life, to various functions, marking high aesthetic and literary uplift, but also figurative. He is a good builder of various artistic figures, an innovator of creating new words and expressions, and a sublimant of the ideas he poses and realizes in his poetry. Although it is a whole set of signs that Kadare uses in his poems, which are motivated by the feeling of love, we will in this case stop the signs he uses most, as well as those signs which make a special significance for his poetry. On this occasion, we will dwell on the signs, coinciding with the poetry, which appears as a poem of love, and which in Kadare occupies a place, though not deserved, we would say, like love, moon, flower, bride , the heart, the lips, the eyes, the cheeks, the throat, the heart, the soul. There are also a number of other signs that reinforce and sublimate the poetic ideas of Kadare's love motifs, but we believe that these are the signs that strengthen our conviction of the artistic achievement of his poetry as well as those that make up innovation in Albanian poetry generally, whether in terms of poetry, or in terms of the breadth of poetic figuration.

Internal Perspectivism and Empathy in Ismail Kadare’s Novels in the Communist and Post-Communist Period

Author(s): Lindita Tahiri,Nerimane Kamberi / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

This paper compares the literary work of the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare in the communist and post-communist periods, pointing out the stylistic traits that have made his work resistant to the communist rule. In a political context which managed to disfigure literature as a tool of the daily interests of politics, Kadare succeeded in protecting language from an Orwellian absolute repression. During the communist period, Kadare broke out not only of the Albanian political isolation but also of the stylistic limits and literary incapability of Socialist Realism. Yet, scholars such as the eminent Balkan historian Noel Malcolm (1997) have condemned Kadare for opportunistic relation with the regime, and this opinion emerged every time the writer was announced as candidate for the Nobel Prize. The paper argues that Kadare’s narrative style characterized by lack of authoritarianism is the best argument which refutes this condemnation. The stylistic features of his prose are analysed through linguistic indicators such as agency, transitivity, passivation, animacy, free direct and indirect discourse, intensifiers, deictics, thematization, and cohesion. This study points out the internal perspectivism in Kadare’s prose written during the communist period and identifies metafiction and inter-subjective focalization in his post-communist novels.