KADARE AS A MASTER OF TIME
Luçiano BOÇI
Abstract
The work referred to four of his not-randomly chosen works, “A GIRL IN EXIL”, “TIRANA’S FOGS”, “THE SHADOW” dhe “THE COLD FLOWERS OF MARS”, aims to conclude that Kadare, alongside other definitions, remains the author of time, of its ontological and artistic value.
TIME is that literary process which Kadare breeds in forms of beauty, meaning and artistic, like no other writer in Albanian literature and wider.
In the corpus of his novels, more classical proceedings such as chronology, retrospective, anticipation and more modern ones such as methodical confusions, slowdowns, stops at times that do not last long, time limitless time, backwards, etc. Within his creative process we see how the dimensions of the role of time change in order to build the likelihood level and harmonize poetic elements within the complex structure of novels.
The novel of The Contemporary Expression expresses the realization of man's permanent desire to own time, to stop it, to turn it into flow, to fragment it, or to unify it. The author achieves this by turning time into an important artistic tool, which, we can say, carries the features of an artistic figure. As such, through the writer's fantasy, it takes the form of a plastic tool that moves in different directions and places, with variable intensity, building compositional and subject variations varied and infinite.
His time-working mastery is a dominant sign of his artistic poetics.
The methodology used is an in-depth literary analysis, built on a qualitative approach, combining: the typology of time forms,structural analysis of texts, and the philosophical-artistic interpretation of the time as an ontological notion in literature.
Pages: 197 - 207