"Climbed to the pedestal of eternity"/ Rama: Sad news of Kadare's death

2024-07-01 11:10:00, Politikë CNA

"Climbed to the pedestal of eternity"/ Rama: Sad news of Kadare's

Edi Rama, LSA photo

In a post on social networks, the head of the government, Edi Rama, reacted to the death of the colossus of Albanian letters, Ismail Kadare.

Rama says that this is sad news and that Kadare ascended to the pedestal of eternity.

Full reaction:

I just learned the sad news of the departure from our midst of the greatest monument of Albanian culture, which has already ascended to the pedestal of eternity, and no words come to me at this moment, but only the idea of ??reprinting this message published for his birthday.

"Writing this greeting for him, it occurred to me how many people have taken the time to write books, dissertations, master's degrees, doctorates, reports, articles, writings, biographies and scribblings, with dithyrambs, evaluations and even insults, for his books and about himself, and how little it is likely that the lines of their letters will have a better fate than the sand castles that the toads build by the sea, prefiguring the heroes of fairy tales and ballads or the villains of the yawns of threats heard before sleep.
And with this thought, I am leaving this note (which will have the same fate as those castles) with a simple thank you, without claiming anything more than the expression of great gratitude to Ismail for the fantastic monument he has erected for the Albanian language , making my love for this mysterious language even greater, which we Albanians are lucky enough to speak and write as our mother tongue; for the extraordinary pleasure of traveling in the world of events, characters, emotions that he has brought to life with the ease of a magician, brought to light the power of an exorcist and stored with the precision of a girocastrite; for the bitterness he has caused to the mediocre and for the lip-smacking he has provoked to the jealous with his resounding success in dozens of languages ??of this world, and definitely also for the fruitless debate between the barricades, where the admirers of the writer and the judge have lined up for 30 years now of the citizen or simply the man Ismail Kadare - where I myself have learned and understood quite a bit over the years...
Ah, this is quite personal, and also for Vladimir Mayakovsky, the volcanic genius of Russian poetry, who if Ismail Kadare did not exist I would have known him forever, in one of the most amazing encounters of my life with literature!
I am stopping here and wishing today along with his birthday that the rumor that Ismaili no longer writes, is just his next game with the characters of real life, where he has always been like a foreigner with a background and passport Albanian, I leave the last word of this greeting to Majakovks, pronounced by Kadare:
"Your thought,
which dreams in the soft brain,
like the fat lackey on the couch with the sardel,
I will mock with the bloody zeal of the heart;
until I am satisfied, cruel and brutal." Now it is no longer oral, Ismaili no longer writes. / CNA