'Odin Mondvalsen', a dystopia
| Author | Elsa Demo |
| Position | Academy of Albanological Studies |
| Pages | 96-103 |
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“O
d
in Mon
d
va
l
sen”, a
dy
stopi
a
PhD
(
C.
)
Elsa Dem
o
A
cademy o
f
A
lbanological Studie
s
Ab
str
a
c
t
Kasëm Trebeshina’s “
O
din Mondvalsen –
A
love story” (1956) is one o
f
the most important
novel wri en under the dictatorship in
A
lbania. The reality in totalitarian regimes experienced
b
y the mankind constitutes a challenge in artistic discourse. Trebeshina is looking for a
language and a style of his own, to truthfully transpose the human catastrophe. Following, it is
shown how the author organizes the
fi
gures o
f
literary speech, to create esthetic distance and
t
he illusion of real life. Trebeshina’s concern has to do with the creation of a metaphysic world.
The cause is alienism, madness, atrocity of the man towards the political power, unexplored
m
otives for the time and a
g
ainst the trend with the motives of o cial literature.
The analysis of the character showed that “
O
din Mondvalsen” conveys a political, moral
a
nd psychological meaning
f
or the time when the work was conceived, and
f
or any time that
regenerates the absolute dictatorial control upon the man.
Trebeshina’s dystopian vision, seen in the international context of this genre, it is an authentic
proposal, which comes from a world not yet a ected from the confl icts of civilization, confl icts
t
hrough which literature picks up great topics.
Ke
y
word
s
:
dystopian literature, genre, narration, illusion, allegoric discourse, social realism.
I
ntr
oduc
t
io
n
D
y
sto
p
ian
l
iterature
h
as given to XX-t
h
centur
y
l
iterature re
p
resentative texts in
p
rose.
I
ts genre is nove
l
. D
y
sto
p
ian
l
iterature, engage
d
p
o
l
itica
lly
against tota
l
itarianism,
reca
ll
s t
h
at: “
l
iterature an
d
societ
y
cannot
b
e treate
d
as two se
p
arate s
ph
eres t
h
at
d
o
n
ot communicate among them”
1
.
D
y
sto
p
ian, canonic novels, wri en b
y
authors as
Y
evgen Zam
y
atin,
A
ldous Huxle
y
,
George
O
rwe
ll
, ex
p
ress t
h
e
l
in
k
s
b
etween i
d
eo
l
og
y
, uto
p
ia an
d
l
iterature. We
incor
p
orate “
O
din Monvalsenin” o
f
Kasem Trebeshina, to this genre mosaic. This
n
ove
l
, t
h
oug
h
wit
h
strong
dy
sto
p
ian e
l
ements,
h
as no ten
d
enc
y
to
b
e missionar
y
or
p
ur
p
ose
f
ul literature. Such was the literature o
f
socialist realism, which
p
ut into
p
ractice
p
olitical thesis and encouraged
p
seudo humanism.
“
Od
in Mon
d
va
l
sen” is a text, w
h
ere est
h
etic
d
issi
d
ence is ex
p
resse
d
as t
h
ematics, as
d
iscourse, as a new avant-garde and com
p
lete
p
rocedure in relation to the literature
b
e
f
ore and a
er the
y
ears 1955-‘56, when the novel was wri en.
A
s an innovative
wor
k
, it ten
d
s to a
d
iversion in t
h
e
p
u
bl
ic rece
p
tion
h
orizon in t
h
at era. T
h
e
ph
i
l
oso
phy
,
the outlook, the conce
p
tualization and the construction o
f
the text were not a
ected
by
the
p
ressure o
f
sel
f
-censorshi
p
and censorshi
p
. This ha
pp
ened because the text
was not aimed
f
or
p
ublishing.
A
ll these elements and
f
actors give the
f
eatures o
f
f
ree
li
t
e
r
a
t
u
r
e
t
o
t
hi
s w
o
r
k
.
1
Booker, M. Keith, “The d
y
sto
p
ian im
p
ulse in modern literature: fi ction as social criticism”, Green-
wood Press, London, 1994,
p
.175.
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