Issues of Reception of The "Literature of The Drawer”. The Case of Zef Zorba Cover Image

Çështje të receptimit të “letërsisë së sirtarëve” rasti i Zef Zorbës
Issues of Reception of The "Literature of The Drawer”. The Case of Zef Zorba

Author(s): Viola Isufaj
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Historical Linguistics, Albanian Literature, Philology
Published by: Qendra e Studimeve Albanologjike
Keywords: system; waiting; unique qualities; stories of isolation and loneliness; history of literature;

Summary/Abstract: During the research of periodicals, interviews, journalistic articles, scientific articles, anthologies as well as the chapters devoted to Zef Zorba within study-books, we found some data, which, all together, organized in a system, constitute a proof of his reception, - indeed not voluminous, but with specifics unlike those of other authors: a kind of reception with unique qualities, just like his poetry itself. We will stop in highlighting some features of these studies: - life drawing of Zef Zorba's portrait, the portrait of an artist - on the way of the writing of Zef Zorba, in solitude and in terror, - on the ways of relating to the virtual recipient, "a ghost" one - on the retrieving the broken thread of the continuity of Albanian literature and the connection with authors such as Lasgush Poradeci, Mitrush Kuteli, Ernest Koliqi, etc. - the concept of dissidence and issues of the relationship with hermetic writers etc. In his solitude, Zorba made the very essence of his thoughts a living work. A history of isolation and loneliness is a history of literature, although a secret one. We all know that in socialist realism, people of action are usually appreciated, but it is the marginalized people who really acted: they changed the pages of Albanian literature.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 03-04
  • Page Range: 117-138
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Albanian
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