THE NARRATOR CHARACTER IN ISMAIL KADARE’S NOVELS
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https://doi.org/10.58885/ijllis.v13i1.70afKeywords:
Literature, Narration, Typology, Kadare, ImagologyAbstract
This study looks at a specific type of character seen in Ismail Kadare's novels: the narrator. Every character in The Daughter of Agamemnon is profoundly influenced by their past; not only by their personal past, but also by the narrative voice's depiction of humanity's mythical consciousness. Myth undergoes metamorphosis because it is fundamentally a transfiguration of reality upon which authors construct a new layer of transformation distinct from the origins of archaic myth. This global phenomenon stems from the renewal of the myth's essence, which modifies seemingly immovable values by keeping only the ancient symbolic and signifying character while establishing entirely new meanings in a variety of literary contexts. Mythology and legends play an important role in the narrator's experience: "At times he invokes them to reinforce his own thoughts; at times as an antithesis; sometimes to demonstrate the continuity of human fate; sometimes to reveal its contradictions; sometimes to add emotional weight to events; and at other times to re-dimension them." The refunctionalization of myth is the dominating phenomenon in Kadare's books The Daughter of Agamemnon and The Successor, giving his work a unique addition to both Albanian and international literature.
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