ALBANIAN LITERATURE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY UNTIL 1944 ACCORDING TO THE HISTORICAL OBSERVATION OF ROBERT ELSIE

Abstract

Robert Elsie is one of the important scholars of the Albanian language, literature, folklore and culture in general. His studies prove the great desire to know closely the Albanian land in its multidimensional aspects. He offers a positive image of Albanian values everywhere in the world. He enabled the world to know more closely the Albanian culture by becoming a model of a foreign researcher who studies the whole aspects of the culture of another country. Elsie also writes a history of Albanian literature starting from its first beginnings until the last decades of the twentieth century. Our study will focus on a certain period of Albanian literature according to the empirical experience of Robert Elsie in the Albanian space. The study aims to specify the main authors of the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to 1944, a year before the communist system was installed in Albania. This period, which spans about three or four decades, is distinguished for the thematic characteristics, forms and prominent names of authors who shed light on Albanian letters until the years before the beginning of an ideological system. The study aims to examine this stage through the research eye of Robert Elsie. How Elsie classifies the authors of Albanian literature in periods, how their literary work is related to the socio-political circumstances in the country and who are the major figures of these decades in Albanian literature are some of the issues that will be analyzed in this study.