Aesthetical and Political Aspects of the Relationship between Literature and Ideology in Albania in Dictatorship and in Post-Communism

Abstract

This paper focuses on the relationship between literature and ideology in a former communist country, namely in Albania.
The relationship between literature and ideology in Albania resulted in both aesthetical and political consequences, during communism
and also in post-communism.
In the aesthetical point of view this relationship damaged the previous literary tradition in Albania, it created a limited
linguistic model in all literary genres, and it formed a false concept of Realism to the readers and an unlikely perception of the social
reality itself. This relationship between literature and ideology caused the denigration of the dissenting authors and their expulsion from
the literary history even though they were representatives in the Albanian literature.
In the social and political point of view it strongly supported the war of classes through imprisonments, internal exile of the
writers and their families, and even the execution of the writers that were considered enemies of the Party and people.
Even presently in post-communist Albania there are still opened debates on the political persecutions of the writers based only
on their ideological disagreement with the regime, but also about the other side of the issue, which is the possible connection between writers
and the State Apparatuses where they might have served during dictatorship.
These phenomena will be analyzed basing on methodological lines that are mainly culturologic ones.