Natasha Lako: It was a phenomenon, it spread an emancipating light...

2024-07-01 15:38:43 / JETË ALFA PRESS

Natasha Lako: It was a phenomenon, it spread an emancipating light...

The writer Natasha Lako from the column "Opinion" in News24 spoke about the figure of Ismail Kadare, who passed away this morning.

Lako considered the writer as a "Kadare phenomenon". Lako said that he knew Kadare in her youth. "When I published my first poems in the newspaper Drita, I had them as their editor," confessed Lako, who added that she had a very good friend, the colossus of Albanian letters.

She said that Kadare was a phenomenon because we had many writers, but he had the civic spirit.

"For me, as a Korca girl, it was the civic phenomenon that the whole generation was waiting for. I think today that from Kadare's great ability, which brought the urban life of Albania, the writer belongs to every stratum. A writer, a phenomenon like Kadareja comes as a spokesperson for many Albanian eras", said Lako.

The writer said that Kadare has admitted himself that he is more of a novelist than a poet, but the masterpiece of masterpieces remains "Palace of Dreams".

"Writers like Kadare have spread an unquenchable light, an emancipating light," said Lako.

The writer said that the Albanians, wanting to relativize everything, just like the previous regime hit her, continued to hit her. "Kadare was the greatest European Albanian, those who hit him could not see the light of the other", said Lako.

She said that surprisingly, as soon as I heard the news about Kadare's death, I remembered Skanderbeg's horse written by Marlin Barleti. "The writer does not bring the era, it is the era that brings the writer. 'The Winter of the Great Loneliness' is a great masterpiece. Kadare is multidimensional, it belongs to everyone, even Enver Hoxha has read it, but as I said, the writer belongs to everyone, it also belongs to criminals", said Lako.

She said that there are personalities who insulted Ismail Kadare, while today they give him the greatest honors. "The entire democratic movement, its soul was Kadare. The students at that time said: Kadare is with us. Kadare's escape itself affected the democratic movement," said Lako.

 

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