FEATURES OF THE PROVERBIAL DISCOURSE IN THE PROSE OF DRITËRO AGOLLI
FEATURES OF THE PROVERBIAL DISCOURSE IN THE PROSE OF DRITËRO AGOLLI

Summary/Abstract: The reading and decoding of Dritëro Agolli’s literary works presents us with the principles of a writer who approaches the folk discourse, enriching further the Albanian literary prose. The vital philosophy that the proverbial discourse carries, occupies a special space in his novels, “The splendor and fall of comrade Zylo” (Shkëlqimi dhe rënia e shokut Zylo) (1973) and “The devil’s box”,(Arka e djallit), (1997). Dritëro Agolli has explored and structured many logical and argumentative situations deriving from the folk wisdom. The proverb in Agolli’s prose is perceived and used as a meta-linguistic designation. Fixed patterns, polysemy, internal evolution of semantic meaning and proverbial referents units can be found in this discourse context. Based on the richness of lexical- grammatical value, it is noticed that verbs, nouns, adjectives etc, are the key words which bear the moral, political and cultural aphorisms. Predicate and lexical structures highlighting the proverbial tactics of the characters in Agolli’s prose enable the researcher to understand and explain the transition from the literary to figurative meaning. Proverbs can also be viewed from their prosodic parameters, morphological variations and rhythmic schemes.

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