THE HOMERIC ISSUE IN A NOVEL BY I. KADARE
THE HOMERIC ISSUE IN A NOVEL BY I. KADARE

Summary/Abstract: When the H File novel was published in the Nentori magazine (1981), a novel which was widely known later as The File on Homer, with very few exceptions, almost nothing was known about the founders of the theory of orality, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, visitors to Northern Albania and to the more remote Sandjak during the 1930s. Both of them were renowned Harvard University scholars in the United States. Their names are still in the sidelines in the Albanian field of studies. Not only the Harvard collection of the Albanian songs is still unpublished, but also the essential work of Albert Lord, The Singer of Tales, even though it was translated more than halfa century ago by Nelson Qabej, entitled The Singer of Tales, it is still unpublished and its manuscript is preserved in the archive funds of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Art Studies (former Institute of Folk Culture). Before those tales, only the Frenchman Albert Dumont had thought to look into the Balkan area to find explanations for the Homeric issue.

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