ARKITEKTURA REALE DHE AJO FIKSIONALE E GJIROKASTRËS TE KADAREJA
THE REAL AND THE FICTIVE ARCHITECTURE OF GJIROKASTRA IN ISMAIL KADARE

Summary/Abstract: The object of this paper is the analysis of three main novels of Ismail Kadare: Chronicle in Stone, Questions of Lunacy and The Fall of the Stone City, where the references to this city’s cartography, as well as to its citizen’s are explicitly obvious. Based on a wide theoretical set since the Antiquity to the present days, which reviews the boundaries between the real and the fictive, we are looking into shedding light on the amalgamation of these planes in Kadare’s novelistic poetics. The main focus of our study is the way in which a unique universe of anthropological signs and symbols, architectural coordinates, and of the psyche of this city’s citizen are transformed into an artistic matter and structure. The intensive relation that this great author creates with his birthplace in an anthropological and symbolic level, feeds a same relationship in the linguistic idiom. So, the topos of this city, which can easily be identified in the real world, is not only the product of some references to lived experiences, but also of the linguistic material used to build the linguistic discourse. It will also be argued the ways in which this mimetic world that is present in Kadare’s work does not infringe on the character of the artistic narrative.

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