Articles tagged "Albanian Literature"

from “My Father’s Books” (Mag: Articles)

By Luan Starova | July 2, 2009

In those rare moments when, bent over his opened books, he considered his fate, seeking solutions to the Balkan history of his family, in those moments when he thought he was fully prepared to begin writing…...

Translated from Macedonian by Christina Kramer

Almost Parnassus (Mag: Articles)

By Gentian Çoçoli | November 4, 2007

Now comes the labor of descent. Walking down the wooden stairs of the house, it comes to you, you are descending the slopes of Parnassus— the chips in the white plaster, like feathered clouds, give…...

Translated from Albanian by Erica Weitzman

from Second Sentence (Mag: Articles)

By Fatos Lubonja | April 25, 2007

February 1979 started with heavy snow, a biting wind, and the baying of the Alsatian kept by the guards to foil escape attempts. Superstitious prisoners claimed that the dog's howling at night augured…...

Translated from Albanian by John Hodgson

The Abolition of the Profession of Curser (Mag: Articles)

By Ismail Kadare | October 31, 2006

Other rumors might have circulated widely in earlier periods, but without a doubt these new ones should have produced the greatest effect. The current reports concerned the abolition of the office of curser.…...

Translated from French by John K. Cox

The Island You and I (Mag: Articles)

By Luljeta Lleshanaku | January 2, 2004

living on an island far from cities with traffic lights and people.Outside we hear the rustlings of a bed of reeds where the wind with its toothless mouth blows luring in tides.A boat is moored on the…...

Translated from Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

February Sky (Mag: Articles)

By Luljeta Lleshanaku | January 2, 2004

Large, gray, sprawled like an old elephant. Winter is ending. Low, sloping roofs are overturned boats slumbering along the shores of drowsiness.Twenty years of an oak tree's life is burned instantly…...

Translated from Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

The Postman (Mag: Articles)

By Luljeta Lleshanaku | January 2, 2004

He comes to me every day with a cruel bounce in his step with eyes darting like little green flames- the town postman in a heavy, damp coat jovially announcing he has nothing for me. I see his blue uniform…...

Translated from Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

The Cinema (Mag: Articles)

By Luljeta Lleshanaku | January 2, 2004

Without fail Sundays at the cinema were always rainy days big black umbrellas clashing against the ticket booth. The doorman among the torn stubs looked like a watercolor hung crookedly on a kitchen wall.…...

Translated from Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

Ahlem (Mag: Articles)

By Fatos Lubonja | January 1, 2004

1 The television room had never been so full and so silent, except for the announcer's voice booming for more than an hour. Nobody added a whisper to his commentary. Nobody made a move to leave. It…...

Translated from Albanian by John Hodgson

Shadows on the Snow (Mag: Articles)

By Luljeta Lleshanaku | January 1, 2004

The snow comes late this year. Violet shadows doze like shepherds round a white fire. The swaying shadow of a fence looks like a woman's clavicle- a woman who dreams of her lover's snowy journey…...

Translated from Albanian by Shpresa Qatipi and Henry Israeli

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