Profesioni i shkrimtarit: Fjalim i mbajtur në Munih, janar 1976
The Writer's Profession: A speech given in Munich, in the January of 1976

Summary/Abstract: A writer can only be a man who feels a sense of responsibility, although it so happens that in his particular actions he may show this no more than others. This is a responsibility for the life that is deteriorating and man should not feel shame in saying that this responsibility is inspired by pity, which is of no value if it is declared to be a general and undefined feeling. Pity requires a concrete metamorphosis of every creature that lives and exists. Through myth and traditional literatures, the writer learns and practices metamorphosis. He is summed up to nothing if he does not apply metamorphosis in his environment. The diverse life which pierces the author and of which he perceives separately every aspect of its appearance is not reduced, within the writer, in one simple concept, but instead it gives him strength to reject death and thus it transforms into something universal. It cannot be that the writer leaves mankind in the pity of death. The writer, who refuses to be imposed upon, learns on his own that death exerts a great power over many people. Even if many will find this to be a pointless endeavor, he will rise against such a thing and will refuse to give in. It will be a pleasure for the writer to oppose the heralds of nothingness, who are increasing their numbers in literature, and the writer will give a finer battle using other tools rather than their own.

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