Monika Stafa: After Skënderbeu and Marlin Barleti, Ismail Kadare was the truest symbol of Albanian identity

2024-07-03 11:53:25Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Monika Stafa: After Skënderbeu and Marlin Barleti, Ismail Kadare was the
Monica Staff

The author and researcher Monika Stafa considers the writer Ismail Kadare the most important figure for the representation of the identity of Albanians after Skënderbeu and Marlin Barleti.

In an interview for "Breaking" in Top News, Staff said that Kadare was the elite representative of the Albanian nation.

" It had a more than European dimension. After Skenderbeu and Marlin Barleti, it was the truest symbol of Albanian identity. It gave us what we had been missing for years, since the time of Marlin Barleti, the Albanian identity. In the matches of the national team we see only red and black flags, crazy fans.

Ismail Kadare is another Albanian landmark, not so much with the red and black flag, as to show the Albanianness, in an elaborate form, of that Albanianness of the Albanian land until eternity. I say this not only with passion and as a lover of his books, but also of a man who will not come to Albanian land for a long time.

This was a fate, a great gift for Albania, which was born after the 50s. He came to Albania after the 1950s, starting with 'Boyish Inspirations', with those poetic works, then dealing with novels, journalism and then drama ," said Monika Stafa.


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