ROMAN PËR SHPËRBËRJEN E KOMUNIZMIT JUGOSLLAV
A NOVEL ABOUT DISSINTEGRATION OF YUGOSLAV COMMUNISM

Summary/Abstract: The topic of the novel Shtëpia e fantazmave/The house of ghosts written by Ibrahim Kadriu as much metaphorical as latent, metaphoric since it implies phantasmagoria of utopist ideology of Yugoslav communism exercised in Kosovo, and latent since it creates possibilities for dilemmas giving a novel a well thought end: burnings, elimination and extermination of Yugoslav communist ideology from Kosovar land. The author determines communist system in all forms and at the end tells its end as an amputated ideology in Albanian life and mentality. Determination and the end is not presented by the author declaratively, aware that this would alienate it from being literacy, but it is done empirically, through life experience and the figure of the symbol that leaves powerful impressions to the reader. This is the key of this novel’s success from chronic writing. Petrit Gjoni falls into the spider net of the last communist ruler, Luan Gerajt who without any legal motive, but because of his sick ambition and jealousy towards Petrit’s successes in family life and educational work, expels him from his workplace. Luan does this also to break Petrit’s ego, to force him become subjected, to ask him for mercy so Luan can express his own superiority towards his schoolmate, but also towards the public showing himself as omnipotent and oppressor of even successful people. This dismissal of Petrit Gjonaj does not make him bend at any moment, in contrary it makes him stand tall during entire his life. People with sold souls such as Luan Geraj usually is immoral also and this feature of their character, at the end of the novel, gets disserved tragic finish: Luan’s immorality gets discovered: he gets burnt in the house of ghosts. The novel Shtëpia e fantazmave, with its compositional structure, narration manner and multiple discourses, makes you understand it has elements of postmodern novel.

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