Kadare, or the freedom of the unspoken word

What do we hear being said today when we say: Kadare?

Until now Kadare was inside the book and spoke to us from there, and we tried to hear his word. Now he comes out of the book and is with us. Let us stress this: Kadare is with us. Was he ever far from us? If not, then why does he now come out of the book and fall among us? Because in essence the writer is like this: inside and outside his own book, at the same time. Meanwhile the writer is on the other side and comes to meet us. We are on this side and try to be on the other side. The writer is always one step ahead of us. Therefore the writer does not come to us to stay with us, but to take us with him inside the book and make us partners in his great freedom.

Now this difficult praxis, frighteningly differently colored, where does it gather and from where does it speak to us? Where are we now? We wanted to learn the roots of this difficult praxis that seethes between reader and writer in Kadare.

With a great writer it happens roughly what happens with a river. The river grows, and one day becomes great and ever greater, but most often it begins in a small, thin stream that usually flows out of a rock.

Kadare is the first great Albanian to enter the Coupole, the wisdom of Europe. So he is there with a different status, and his seal is something else. Kadare is there as a great European writer. And this tells us exactly this: Kadare is there together with his reader, both connected forever in a conversation that can never end, wonderfully sheltered within the harsh structure of the cavarja. – writes Dr. Anastas Kapurani in his study "Kadare, or the Freedom of the Unspoken Word", a publication in the academic series of the publishing house Albas.

The study is divided into five chapters. In the first chapter, "The Wedding in the Abyss", symbols such as: The Old Woman of the Wedding, Skanderbeg, Enver Hoxha are discussed. In the second chapter, "The Freedom of the Unspoken Word", special attention is given to the year 1389, the Pyramid, Homer, while in the third chapter, titled "The Truth of Difficulties", the researcher sheds light on several novels and themes of Kadare's work such as: The Monster, Agamemnon's Daughter, and, asking the question of what the Trojans bring to Butrint? – offers a detailed reading that unfolds through the language of symbols in Kadare's work.

"Twilight Between the Crests" and "The Myth of Kadare" come as two separate chapters, which are a synthesized analysis of critical thought, unpacking the literary work of the writer, who is already one of the most important in the European world of letters. The afterword, or conclusion of the study, raises the question: What do we hear being said today when we say: Kadare? This question is the thesis developed within this study, one of the most serious in the series of numerous studies on the work of Ismail Kadare.