The book “Kadare and the communist regime”, written by Dashnor Kaloci, brings to the reader’s attention 101 files from the archives of the dictatorship state in Albania, from 1959 to 1991.
The book aims to shed light on the relation of the regime with art and culture, focusing especially on Ismail Kadare.
Spartak Ngjela, who wrote the preface of the book, says that it eliminates the mediocrity of anyone who has spoken against the writer and his work.
“It is important to say that any great writer has been through an internal conflict, the eternal fight between mediocrity and the great talent. It is the fight of talent against the ambition of those who have failed. Its purpose is to darken the national values of Albania, which has always been a tendency of our enemies”, Ngjela said, adding that Albania still doesn’t have a proper and thorough study about Kadare.
Gentiana Sula, Director of the Authority for the Right to Information on former Secret Service, spoke about the efforts of the Albanian society to give a deeper look to the matter of opening the communist files.
“Kadare was the first one who raised his voice about a moral detachment from the past, by opening the Secret Service archives in 2006, when the Council of Europe issued a strong resolution for the time. He is one of the personalities who knew how to read, translate it, and leave some precious recommendations on how the files should be opened. It took more than 12 years of efforts, with citizens never stopping of wanting it, until his recommendations were finally realized. His civilian courage never stopped existing, and he was one of the first people who applied to our institution to know about the files mentioning him, and who authorized the Kadare Study Center to be the scientific research agent to work with his files”, Sula said, adding that the civilian courage of Kadare has now been translated into the laws and articles, as she showed the archive files mentioning Ismail Kadare.
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