PASARDHËSI MES FAKTIT DHE FIKSIONIT - Romani Pasardhësi i Ismail Kadaresë
THE SUCCESSOR THROUGH FACT AND FICTION

Summary/Abstract: The Successor of Ismail Kadare is a novel about the historical truths of 1981-’82 in communist Albania, where through an analeptic narrative, the author presents events that proleptically had been foreseen. By playing with the heterodiegetic narrator, through the Architect's narration, which is converted in a homodiegetic narrator and through the final monologue of the principal character, Kadare shows us the suicide/homicide of the Successor, intertwining skillfully the real story with the fiction. Therefore, this work aims that through remembrance, intertextual and intermedial relationships to find the connections between fact and fiction, considering the interdependence between these two as a fictionalization of the facts. Across the real and fictional characters, Kadare shows the most sensational suicide/homicide of the last century in the communist Albania, that of the Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu, and also the involvement and the later arrest of the Interior Minister, Kadri Hazbiu, events who were ordered by Enver Hoxha.The Successor is a model of interweaving the fact with fiction and a proof of how many hypotheses can produce a hidden fact.

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