LITERARY AND MYSTIC INTERTWINES: KAFKA, RAMADANI, DIBRA
LITERARY AND MYSTIC INTERTWINES: KAFKA, RAMADANI, DIBRA

Summary/Abstract: Despite his late occurrence in Albanian literature, Franz Kafka’s influence has been particularly noticed in Musa Ramadani’s (1944-2020) novel “The Prophet from Prague” in Kosovo and Ridvan Dibra’s (1959) novel “Franz Kafka Writes to His Son”. This paper aims at examining Kafka’s influence in Albanian and Kosovan literature (e.g., through subjects and philosophical/aesthetic sensibilities) having Ramadani and Dibra’s works as primary comparative subjects. Dibra outlines his Kafka, the authorial Kafka, giving voice to his philosophy about life, love, and death. In addition, the biographical method has also been applied occasionally because Ramadani augments the narrative partly on Kafka’s biographical signs, but also on metaphysical and mystical ones. These findings reveal that Kafka’s cult, or more precisely Kafka’s myth has not been exempted even from Albanian literature; Albanian writers plunge into the labyrinth of research with their own means of literary expressiveness and thus become self-personified in their imagination. It is precisely in this regard that we find Kafka in Musa Ramadani and Ridvan Dibra’s novels.

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