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The writer we miss

2023-05-20 14:20:36Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA MONIKA STAFA
The writer we miss
Monica Staff

Many times in life it happens to us that the events we experience, even when they are instigated by unknown people or not, have the driving force to influence our individual lives.

But what does it mean for a simple individual, a middle-class citizen to be part of an era? To be the story of a generation?

We know that there are two stories in human anthropogenesis. It is what is otherwise called the Childhood Memory; capable of destroying, executing and causing inexplicable damage.

But there is another story; the everyday one, consisting of small, socio-political and cultural events created mainly by movies, songs, changes in the consumer society and ways of speaking or even being.

Because man is never separated from collective life. Even when he dreams of being independent from her.

But in human society there are quite a few people who do not feel they are part of history, its memory. Individuals who find themselves completely detached from important events as they occur.

This is in fact what the French Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux calls "un moi hors de l' Histoire" in her novel "The Years" - completely out of history.

This ability to detach them from history is another way that creates History beyond individual perception, history books, media or collective narratives in the way History is told and transcended.

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Events make the era. And each era has its own momentum. That's why people confess, write. They tell events and stories, although disconnected from the world that seems to unconsciously mark our lives.

One of these events is the movement of different thinking in the second half of the last century.

The generation of 1968. The generation that most concerned the author in her novel.

And who was he?

In the middle of the 60s of the 20th century, great movements of thought took place.

In the world of art, especially the performing arts, the traditional space of freedom was declared insufficient and invalid, not only in the East but also in the West.

In the former BS, Ilia Jerenburg wrote "The Melting of the Ice", while Pastërnaku was awarded the Nobel Prize for "Doctor Zhivago". The Beatles' song titles "Let it be" became moral principles for the generations of the 1960s.

The 1968 generation entered the life of modern society with a spirit of revolt and rejection; aesthetic, ethical, political and social. It was precisely the refusal that made this generation a protagonist in the history of the Cold War. This spirit of rejection in some of the Western countries took the character of mass movements. Students and youth in France occupied the squares and alerted the government. In Italy and Britain, the 1968 Generation set society's thinking in motion and demanded from it a new horizon of expectation.

This generation in the former communist countries, satellites of the former BS, prepared the hero of the white protest, marked in the figure of the Czech, Jan Palach, who burned himself in a Bratislava square to express his disagreement with the presence of the Treaty troops. of Warsaw in his country.

Without the slogans, slogans, movements, manifestations, the challenge and especially the rejection of this generation that acted in a pre-political environment, it is almost impossible to imagine the initiative of the majority of European states to unite in the commitment to fulfill the responsibilities for the cult of freedom. human.

That initiative was at the same time the greatest opposition to the totalitarian cult of the individual; The Final Act of Helsinki that raised the rights of the citizen to a cult by radically reformatting the morality of politics.

But in Albania, was there a Generation of 1968?

It is often thought that Albania, being an isolated country, remained outside the flow of time, and to be absent from epochal times is a great curse. At best, those who know the history of Albania somehow find some connection. But all his merits or atrocities are linked to the fight against religion and the institutions of the clergy.

According to Kadare, exactly at this time, Albania was living the winter of great loneliness. Perhaps because of its position outside the bloc, the only rejection that came was from the group of writers.

To those young people.

Young people with the generation of those who came out of the war. The confrontation between them appeared to be formal, only because of a verse. But this is only half the truth.

The result was the depravity of traditional means of expression. Another literature was born.

A new literature.

The cult of the hero and heroism was opposed to the liberal spirit of the Western movements of the Generation of 1968. It was the art and literature of the first quality that turned the movement of the masses into a movement of thought and influence.

Were these the reasons why Kadare and a few other dissenting names paid a heavy toll in the two decades that followed?

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Protecting the past and passing on facts to future generations are some of the most sacred and important roles of the writer.

But of course, not all writers consciously take on this role.

But why should it be so?

"He would like to save something from the time where we will never be again."

This is the last sentence with which Annie Ernaux closes her confession. It says that time can be turned back to a country: it is our rightful country, if it has weighed properly in the history of the world.

As is often the case, the 2022 announcement of the new Nobel laureate was greeted with a "Who?", "Which one is she?"

This is mostly the case in most of the Anglophone world. To most readers, Ernaux is an unknown, yet her approach to the perennial issue of preserving and passing on the past to the future shows that her award is well deserved.

Among us, you find many stories that serve the memory, as a notion of time. But still not such as to serve a history like that of the second half of the century. the XXth.

The literary narrative that, as in a Hebrew Bible, we rejoice like Enola Holmes with her pussules, when the messages lead us to some pages we still do not know.


Even worse, when we know them in half.


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