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Fair - The dead taste of the book

2022-11-19 15:19:12Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA MONIKA STAFA
Fair - The dead taste of the book
Monika Stafa

November always comes wet in Tirana. And with it the Book Festival. The days of this holiday should be joyful, but the fragile weight that the book carries today brought joy only to one corner of the capital. At the last corner of the "Dëshmorët e Kombit" boulevard, where the fair is being held, as a festival of countless titles, in the Palace of Congresses.

And although there are countless, the taste to select what I need to acquire with time always becomes difficult for me.

What is the reason?

During the Book Days, several activities took place in the premises of the Palace of Congresses, where the stands with the big letters of the publishing houses had marked their names and logos. I was also in one of them. It was called 'The Book Sofa'.

The organizers had taken special care to ensure that everything received the attention it deserved. Author and reader with media in between. The desire to bring these components together was also the aim of these activities, which most likely have a successful profitback.

In Albania, an average of 3000 book titles and more are published every year. Together with the titles that are published in Albanian in Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and in other countries, there may be twice this number of titles.

Albanian literature is also published in Croatia, Romania, Italy, Germany, Britain, Greece, USA, France. The Albanian book is ordered along with other publications from most university and scientific libraries in the West and East.

Considering the size of the population, this is quite a high figure. But not everything is expressed in numbers. This powerful explosion of the desire to publish is also related to the emergence of society from ideological control. We still suffer from this paranoia today.

It is well known that in totalitarianism the publication of a book was first of all status in society, it was a political and ideological guarantee, not only authorship and authority. At the same time, control over the book was also control over thought. And this led to a well-known limitation of publishing activity.

Të gjithë lëvdojnë sasinë e botimeve në 30 vitet e fundme, por njëherësh të gjithë lëvdojnë leximin e dikurshëm. Dhe atëherë lind pyetja: botohet, por për kë? Kush lexon në Shqipëri, kur lexon, çfarë lexon? Shkollat, çfarë “meny-je” librore u ofrojnë nxënësve? Nëse nuk lexohet, çfarë ka ndodhur me leximin?

Në Shqipëri mungon sistemi i garancive të cilësisë së librit, një trupë e denjë autoritetesh me emra publikë.

Cili autoritet dhe mbi ç’parashikime jepet ky kodifikim?

Flitet gjithashtu për ranking dhe rating të librit, por treg dhe konkurrencë që mund të plotësojë këto kërkesa nuk ka.

This may seem like a technical problem that only a handful of professionals care about. But precisely the lack of these quality guarantees has led to the compromising of values, to their underestimation, to the preference of more than average publications over quality ones, to state recognitions.

From the lack of standard legal guarantees in publications, especially in scientific ones, comes the depravity of references, the replacement of professionals by amateurs and, needless to say, even the latter by charlatans.

And finally, I have a question for you, is this also one of the reasons why parents today, on the 4th day of the "Tirana 2022" Fair, rushed to look for any kind of book for their little ones, as long as it was in English?

Ruthless question...


Në përputhje me standarded JTI

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