SPACE, SYMBOL AND ARCHETYPES IN THE WORK OF MITRUSH KUTELI AND EDGAR ALLAN POE
Emine SHABANI
Abstract
Mitrush Kuteli’s artistic mastery in transforming the folk tale into literary fiction is widely recognized. As he once said, “To transform the folk tale into an artistic story is like trying to put the sun in a dark dome or the spring in a bag.” This illustrates the challenge of elevating the folk tale to an authorial artistic level while preserving its core elements such as symbol, space, archetype, time, fable, legend, the arrangement of objects, and detail, all in correlation with narrative structure and the emotional and spiritual dimensions of the work. In Kuteli’s stories, national and heroic collective archetypes prevail, whereas in Edgar Allan Poe’s works, individual archetypes,such as the archetype of death, anima, animus, persona, shadow, the Great Mother, etc.,are more prominent. These archetypes help us explore the psychological and unconscious states of both characters and narrators, blending fragments of reality and drawing parallels with the authors’ own lives. The environment depicted in their works reflects not only the atmosphere but also the spiritual, mental, and emotional conditions of the characters and the author-narrator, whether as a passive observer or an active participant.
Pages: 19 - 28