The Albanian Historical Novel's Hundred Years Journey

Abstract

Historic novel, besides its achievements, problems and the many debates on its typological assesment, represents the most studied type by critics worldwide. Along with European novel, the Historic Albanian novel is written on novel awereness, but the later, due to political causes, conserved this romantic spirit longer. Therefore it’s present nowadays not just for political issues, but because of existential ones. Besides other characteristics this type of novel reveals, it’s on our interest to bring to evidence the features it gained by some writers of the second half of the 20th century like: SabriGodo, Jusuf Buxhovi, Bilal Xhaferri, Ismail Kadare, Dhimiter Shuteriqi, Skender Drini, Mira Meksi, Ben Blushi etc. It’s obvious that in the modern hist.novel of the second half of the 20th century, critical awereness towards history is seen as realistic one. In the Balkans today’s novel represents the strengthening of the national conscience , whilst the European one represents the national crisis, the resistance to cosmopolitan issues as well as the concern on various types of ideology. The hist. Alb. novel of the beginning of the 21st century changes from being narrative to authentic fiction; therefore it enriches the Albanian novel through direct reference on historic truth. Kadare’s novel, which develops a new attitude towards history ; its parody on historical function as an opposition to censorship, makes out the most innovative example in this context. The typological mixture is a presentation of the inner development of our literature indicating structural changes due to actual social and cultural Albanian structure after the 90’s. V.Shkollovski states that novels can be best modified compared to other janres.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n10p772