The aesthetics, historic, autobiographical and publishing style of Petro Marko in the novel 'One night and two daysprings' and 'Interview with himself '

• Author: Fatjona Memi
• Position: Albanological Studies Center
• Pages: 319-322

ISSN 2410-3918 Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol 1 No 2

Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania July 2015

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e aesthetics, historic, autobiographical and publishing style of Petro Marko

in the novel “One night and two daysprings” and “Interview with himself ”

MSc. Fatjona Memi

Albanological Studies Center

Abstract

Autobiography is a personal literary genre. ere are not only real facts from the life of an individual,

but also fantasy. is paper analyses the existence of aesthetics, historic, autobiographical and

publishing style at the novel “One night and two daysprings” and “Interview with himself”

from Petro Marko. e aim of this paper is to point out the similarities of these two works in

several areas and to show the talent of Petro Marko in using autobiographical data that show

his creative consciousness. He uses several elements like: narrative, the game with calendar

time, etc., to create the link between real and imaginary facts. His novel bears conicts, political

issues, social and vital such as fascism and anti-fascist forces, imprisonment, poverty etc. “One

night and two daysprings”/”Night of Ustika”, proved these facts not only for Albanians but for all

peoples of Europe and the world. His realistic characters embody certain social psychology and

characteristics of Albanian mentality. Such are: Gori Gjinleka (Hasta la vista), Andrea Bora (Night

of Ustika/One night and two day-springs), Leka Gura (Last City), which stand for human living

tempers, especially in relation to love. is peper analyses facts that show similarity in the life of

the author Petro Marko and the character Andrew Bora. Some of them are: their profession as a

writer, imprisonment in Ustika etc.

Keywords: Humanism, war, novel, autobiography, comparison.

Introduction

Albanian literature has known authors with great creative potential. Not only talent but

also the specic conditions in which contemporary literature was created, show originality

and variety of styles, which gave a pleasurable dimension of our literature. Petro Marko

wrote in the period 1930-1991, many genres, like: journalism, poetry, drama, lm scripts,

short stories and novels. e novel “One night and two day-springs”, was written in 1963,

aer a long odyssey in editorial oces, the author was able to publish it in 1989, with

another title, a metaphorical title “Night of Ustika”.

Dawn only once can happen as a result of a political party led by ... Dawn rst and second.

Two dawn. Impossible. Who could bring a second? (Marko, 2002, 4)

Because for Albanian people under the dictatorship dayspring should have been only of

th e pa rty.

Development of the topic

Petro Marko is a writer, who lived intensely. e most comprehensive interpretation would

begin from his life because it is very understandable the inner world and his ideals. In his