You’re a well-known Albanian actor who comes from an unknown Kosovan village, where until relatively recently there was no electricity, no television and of course no theatre. Since everybody’s birth-place is part of their emotional memory, I’d like to ask what your personal relationship is and has been with the place where you were born.
This article serves to announce the identification of an unknown film of Albanian cinema. The author hypothesizes that in 1940 Geg Marubi photographed the shooting of a film, probably artistic in style, shaped and inspired by motifs from Kolë Idromeno’s famous painting ‘Shkodran Wedding’. Keywords: film, cinema, archive, picture, costume, history
Written as a theory about utopia and dystopia, this piece examines types and models of diverse Albanian and international works, aiming at a further categorization within the genre of utopia and dystopia. The author thereby addresses different manifestations of the ‘ideal world’ in philosophy, religion and literature, and notions of ideological panopticons. The piece likewise
This article investigates the presence of Ovid’s verses in the writing of Bogdani. This phenomenon manifests itself as a paraphrasing of familiar Latin verses in one of the best-known texts of early Albanian literature. This paraphrasing is interpreted as poetic hypertext, demonstrating Bogdani’s aesthetic self-awareness in exploiting the texts of a former age. The interpretation
This work is a meta-philosophical adventure in the philosophical concepts of Giorgio Agamben, taken as one of the most able thinkers in interpreting present reality from a philosophical point of view. It addresses works including Homo Sacer, Language and Death, Remnants of Auschwitz, and Infancy and History, through which responsibilities and irresponsibilities in different places
This piece addresses the post-modernist poetic of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse 5, analysing the parodic discourse, the protagonist’s personal philosophy and the role of irony as the narrative’s dominant figure. Considered one of the greatest anti-war novels, Slaughterhouse 5 is interpreted here as historiographic meta-fiction, in which the novelist’s humanist intent is interwoven with the
This article analyses the creation, non-communication and communication of Zef Zorba. His creation and non-communication belong to the communist era, while communication has been achieved under democracy. Perceiving Zorba as a hermetist and elitist poet, Shllaku sees the verse as closely bound up with the poet’s destiny and with existentialist philosophy. Accordingly, the piece analyses
Ann Jefferson (1949) is a British scholar, Professor at the University of Oxford and the author of seven books on French literature, including: The Nouveau Roman and the Poetics of Fiction (1980), Reading Realism in Stendhal (1988), Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference (2000), Stendhal: La Chartreuse de Parme(2003), Biography and the Question
