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This is how my relationship with Kadare went: sometimes immersed in his inexhaustible universe, sometimes wandering and looking for other authors.
"My encounter with Kadare's literature began at the end of the 90s, when I moved to Albania with my family. Ismail Kadare was translated into German; every one of his novels was worth reading and for the Albanians of that time it offered a source of pride, after all other values had been overthrown. Kadare's prose reflected Albanian history: it was bloody, epic and eternal.
Later, there would come a point when I would get tired of it. His lyrics had very little to do with the turbulent period of transition that we experience every day. I started to be attracted to young and brave voices, such as those of Mimoza Ahmeti, Ervin Hatibi or Fatos Kongoli.
Later, when I started studying Albanianology in Munich and started reading Albanian literature in the original, I was fascinated by his linguistic power, which sometimes came with pomposity and sometimes with calmness. Again I felt the need to leave. I asked myself: Is there only Kadare in Albanian literature? I discovered authors banned during communism, such as Ernest Koliqi, Gjergj Fishta or Martin Camaj.
This is how my relationship with Kadare went: sometimes immersed in his inexhaustible universe, sometimes wandering and looking for other authors.
Kadare will not be missed as a person. There were other more authentic voices, such as the former political persecuted, who did not need either literary stylization or books with double meaning, such as Kadare's. However, whoever has not read Kadare is missing something. It is true that his whole world revolves around the Albanians, but he deals there with the mechanisms of the whole world, human hardships and injustices, and, yes, he has humor, which I realized later. With his production and universalism, he remains unique in Albanian literature."
Representative of European-oriented nationalism
Konrad Clewing, historian from Regensburg, former student of Martin Camajt
"Ismail Kadare was a great writer. I want to focus on a misunderstanding that emerged in the news of his death: The German-language media often referred to him as a "Franco-Albanian" writer. Actually, Kadare, apart from the Albanian and French citizenship, also had the Kosovar one. The fact that the latter was not mentioned speaks of the hierarchical attitude of Western intellectuals towards the 'Balkans'. But in fact, Kadare was not a Franco-Albanian-Kosovar writer, but an Albanian writer. Some wise minds in the West cannot accept this because their political concept of national identity is reduced to citizenship. This is a problematic concept for many immigrants. While in the case of Kadare, he is confusing. Ismail Kadare was a sharp representative of Albanian secular nationalism oriented towards Europe. We hope that we will not feel the absence of the deceased in this regard as well."/DW
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