If it is true, as I think, that knowing a country is not only see the architecture, enjoy the sea and the mountains, taste the cuisine but that it also meets history, the stories of those in this country we live or have lived there ... art, music and literature are essential to understand and love.
Here are some tips on reading, a brief bibliography of contemporary Albanian literature. Not all titles in print, but a few, those who have helped me to learn something more about this small town. •
sworn virgins
Elvira Dones, Feltrinelli, 2007, € 7.50
An intense novel that addresses a social phenomenon confined to the mountains of northern Albania and Kosovo and sanctioned by traditional law, through which women, to escape an arranged marriage without disgracing the name of the clans can oath of chastity and lose everything that is feminine in them wearing men's clothes, adopting male behaviors and take on a male name. The Dones tells the story of Hana, who, after fourteen years of violent life in the mountains can no longer suppress his true identity, he rebels and flees to the oath in the United States.
• VAN HOUTEN COCOA DRINK!
di Ornella Vorpsi, Einaudi 2010, euro 12,50
Quattordici racconti in cui i protagonisti hanno lo sguardo oltre il mare, in cui l’Albania sembra la terra da cui partire per un mondo migliore, in cui il tempo sembra solo attesa di un qualcosa d’altro possibile in un altrove. Sono le nuove generazioni che si scontrano con chi ormai ha una vita alle spalle e lo sguardo rassegnato
• ROSSO COME UNA SPOSA
Di Anilda Ibrahimi, Einaudi 2008, euro 12,00
Circa un secolo di storia, dalla monarchia di re Zog al comunismo e all’Albania contemporanea attraverso gli occhi delle donne e le vicende di una numerosa famiglia. Un romanzo storico particolare in cui le tradizioni si stemperano con l’evoluzione society, but remain anchored in the life of migrants as a desire to maintain a national identity relished.
to sign this book are three women, young Albanian women describing the country where they no longer live and describe it in Italian, the language of adoption.
- Elvira Dones, is of Durazzo (1960), lived first in Switzerland and now the United States. E 'author of the letter published in the Republic and to the President of the Council to express outrage at his jokes about pretty girls and Albanian traffickers.
- Ornella Vorpsi, was born in Tirana in 1968, and since 1991 he has lived in Italy.
- Anilda Ibrahimi was born in Vlora in 1972, he moved to Switzerland and then in Italy.
Close reading suggestions with two of the most famous names in the literary landscape of the '900: Ismail Kadare and Gezim Hajdari.
• BODY THIS
Gezim Hajdari, Besa 2011, bilingual text, € 15.00
eclectic cultural scene in the Albanian Hajdari wrote poems, travel books, essays. He lives in exile in Italy since he became uncomfortable for having denounced the Albanian regime crimes and abuses attributable to the period subsequent communist governments. Besa
The editor published the works of Hajdari more than ten years and now offers this collection, published for the first time in Tirana in 1999.
The themes of the distance of exile, l’amore sono centrali.
• GENERALE DELL’ARMATA MORTA
di Ismail Kadaré, Longanesi 2009, euro 16,00
Pubblicato nel 1963 è uno dei romanzi di Kadaré che preferisco: la seconda guerra mondiale è finita e il generale deve riportare i corpi dei caduti italiani in patria (l’armata morta), ma la missione viene turbata dall’incontro con le popolazioni locali, che in quell’orrore porta l’uomo al desiderio di conoscere, di approfondire, di vedere. Una ricerca anche dentro se stesso, un guardare quello che non è più ma è ancora.
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