Escape from the myth of the new man, in “Zhurma e erërave të dikurshme”

Abstract

While in Albanian public opinion, the case of Dritëro Agolli is randomly recognized as the profile of an official writer, the collection of stories “Zhurma e erërave të dikurshme” is a proof or testimony that his engagement in politics and literature, creates a rather complex relationship. Taking into consideration Agolli’s profile, on the one hand as a homo politicus, his engagement in Albanian political and social life during the years of communist dictatorship, and on the other one, his profile as a homo-poeticus, in which we meet the correct application of dogma and principles of socialist realism and in other cases, in a part of his work, we find him as a conscious deviant of this platform. The profile of Dritëro Agolli presents curiosity from this viewpoint. The collection of stories “Zhurma e erërave të dikurshme”, a new literary performance for its time of writing, was published in 1964, but its publication was immediately banned. But what could have happened with reader’s approach of this collection at the time of its first publishing? How should this collection be read today? In our viewpoint, this collection should be read with a more objective and critical approach, far from the prejudices or different labeling attributed to Dritëro Agolli during these years of democracy, thus avoiding the traps and intrigues of the past, from which it is better to learn rather than deny and forget.