Books are the most beloved companion over the weekend to, in "A bunch of rays across the RI", we always take care of choosing a good friend. Today's novel, "The Fog of Tirana" is unusual. For the first time it was edited, published and started to talk about it in 2014, although this is the first novel written by the well-known Albanian author, Ismail Kadare. Kadare wrote this novel during the years of undergraduate studies and this manuscript had remained in the drawer of his masterpieces for many years.
It is noteworthy that the publication of this novel caused the inquisitors to fall, to hear their echoes, and to discuss at the same time. All were curious to read Kadare's first book and Nasi Leres's claims in the dailies of time that this novel was similar to one of his novels, added the number of readers who rush to reveal the truth.
Sometimes it was rumored that this novel was an autobiography of the author himself. Events take place in Tirana in the 1950s. In the book's descriptions, the capital was reflected beautiful, well-developed, entertaining. Student life, as always full of emotions and alive. Bardhyli, an unusual student of the faculty of language-literature, was a rebellious, stubborn boy, refractory to the mentality of the time. On the other hand, Emma, â??â??the girl with whom she is fond of, a prudent, beautiful student, devoted to studies, and at the same time free to trust the feelings of love.
Student's everydayness looks far from the closed reality of the time we're used to reading. The jazz music accompanying them on dancing nights, dressed comfortably and almost open to feelings of each other but twisted in front of their parents and parents.
In this novel, the mentality of time and the discrimination of women, girls and deformation of their role in society emerge. Also, it seems that through the "Mugs of Tirana", the author wants to bring to light all the dictates created in Tirana in that suffocating mind. Not in vain, the book refers to stripped marriages, unkindness, non-realization of love due to the influence of religions, the inequality between the boy and the girl, and the conviction that the boys were forgiven and allowed everything while girls were to be banned and stored as a crystal, which is being touched, beep and possibly smash. They were not allowed to make decisions, to be independent and free.
In conclusion, I can say that this book is not only a panorama of those years, but unfortunately an unclear picture of the years in which we live. It's worth reading from the beautiful story, the fabulous story and the important messages.
I invite you to reading the "Mists of Tirana"!
Rilexohemi next week,
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