Abstract Book of the 9th World Conference on Social Sciences
Year: 2025
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‘Kernel Narrative’ In Kadare’s Fiction: An Attempt to Define a Phenomenological Norm of Reading in Albanian
Ermir Xhindi
ABSTRACT:
How is “fictional” created in Albanian? What is perceived as such, that is, as a “fictional state” of language? Can a necessary set of communicative conditions be defined when fiction becomes possible? What elements, categories, linguistic structures, and relevant meanings are put into motion? This paper partially attempts to measure the possible fictional threshold in language, specifically within the literature of Ismail Kadare, and aims to promote an integral reading influenced by a unique use of Albanian, serving as a structural archetype for interpreting this renowned Albanian author. Through this work, we aimed to discover the natural state of fictional Albanian, specifically the corresponding reading, using extracts that we have judged to be representative of Kadare’s work. Facing challenges of a theoretical and practical order, involving arguments of the fictionalisation of language as a pragmatics of literary discourse and a possible poetics of the boundaries where this process occurs, this work describes a “kernel narrative”, as Gerald Prince names it, a definable norm of fictional reading, which makes visible the stylistic and poetic implications of a phenomenology of reading. From here, a history of literary forms is supported by arguments of a phenomenological nature, explaining the phenomenon of literary success, literary influence, and literary value within a given social structure.
Keywords: Fictionalisation Of Albanian, Phenomenology of Reading, Ismail Kadare, “Kernel Narrative”, Stylistics