Kontributi i studiuesit Kolë Ashta në botimin kritik të autorëve të vjetër të shqipes së shkruar
Kolë Ashta’s contribution to the critical editions of early Albanian literature

Summary/Abstract: The work of scholar Kolë Ashta in the field of study on early Albanian literature remains a valuable contribution to this day. This article aims to review Ashta's studies, not only as his contribution to this field, but also to the method that he has followed in the critical editions of early written Albanian texts (the article focuses on Ashta's philological analysis of his work about Buzuku and Budi). As a criterion for the study and preparation of a critical edition, Ashta determines that the contraposition translation-original should not be prioritized, focusing only on the original, otherwise the range for study and presentation of the text would be greatly narrowed. It’s crucial to highlight the original “passus” that our authors have added within the translated works. The treatment of these texts, though translations, should be seen above all as literary facts of the Albanian language of the XVI-XVII centuries. It seems as though Ashta's point of view on “Meshari” or even Budi’s works is related not only to the translation itself as a work, but also to the process as the conception of linguistic tools and their literary side. Constructing the historical background that these texts require to be published, Ashta always builds an author-contemporary reader relationship to better understand the linguistic style of these authors. Thus, Ashta observes that in the linguistic structure the texts of Buzuku and Budi correspond to common speaking. Likewise, in the case of dialogues prose are a kind of composition in popular discourse.

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