Kush i pari bani… dhe Kur zoti harron
Kush i pari bani… and Kur zoti harron

Summary/Abstract: Literary critics often emphasized that for years the poetry of Esad Mekuli was the inspiration for a number of works not only in verse, but also in prose written by the younger generations. Certainly, literary criticism has timely investigated the influence of Esad Mekuli’s poetry in the narrative prose of Adem Demaçi, but because Adem Demaçi was imprisoned and his works were banned not only for study but also for reading, the poetry of Esad Mekuli and stories of Adem Demaçi never became an object of study from comparative perspective. One of Esad Mekuli’s most successful creations not only in social poetry, but also in Albanian literature generally, is the first poem Kush i pari bani..., written in 1935 and 1936, when our literary pioneer began his studies in Belgrade, in the white city, as he calls it, in the city where his compatriots were mostly laborers, woodcutters, idle wanderers and homeless, a substantial number of whom ended up as beggars or, in more severe cases, crazy, as was his lyrical subject of our social lyricism taken under scrutiny here. Before publishing it as complete version, for the first time in the second edition of his emblematic collection Për ty, in 1963, Esad Mekuli has published separately in different numbers of literary magazine “Jeta e re”, edited by him, four constitutive poems of Kush i pari bani...; the first two poems, Mëngjezi and Nata in no. 3/1958, the fourth E kam pa të çmendun in no. 4/1958, while the third one O, Vlla, me sharrë në krah... in no. 2/1959.

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