The Mountain Eagle On The Paper:The Spiritual Construction Of Albania By Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare is a contemporary Albania poet and writer.He praises the socialist regime in his poetry,but later he changed his praising attitude into critical expose in his novels.This paper analyzes the spiritual construction of Albania in Ismail Kadare's novels.The mountain eagle image is from his poetry,then as a symbol form of Albania the image becomes richer and more plentiful in his novels.This paper takes the spiritual construction of Albania by Ismail Kadare for the mountain eagle on the paper,For one thing,Albanian consider themselves as the mountain eagle kingdom's people,the mountain eagle is the spiritual link of Albanian.Also,the title of the mountain eagle kingdom of Albania has been recognized by the international community.The earliest use of black double headed eagle as a symbol is from Albania's national hero Skanderbeg,he revolted against Osman Turkey's rule in Albania,the use of the logo Skanderbeg used later evolved into the Albania flag-a red flag with a black double headed eagle.For another thing,Ismail Kadare's Albania has the same property with the mountain eagle.Albania are full of mountains,the people living here find living space on the rocky moutains and sheer cliffs as the mountain eagles do.The historical destiny of Albania makes Albanian full of heroic and braving,this character is the same as the brave mountain eagle.This paper based on the memory theory and power theory to analyze Ismail Kadare's novels.In the part of memory,the paper deeply interprets the four dimensions of the thesis from mythological memory,landscape memory,war memory,and character memory.In the part of power,the paper analyzed the four dimensions including power and game,power and love,power and resentment,power and sacrifice.The memory are the mountain eagle's wings,without them the mountain eagle can not fly between the past and the present,fiction and reality.Power is Albania's double heads,without them the mountain eagle can not balance between Europe and Asia,capitalism and socialism.Through the spiritual construction of Albania by Ismail Kadare,the mountain eagle fly through the clouds of the history with sharp eyes and flying high.His writing is against the forgetting mechanism.The application of the epic method makes Albania's national memory live.These precious memories are the core of national identity.He,likes Homer who casually span of time and space.He reproduce the historical destiny and the emotions of the characters inthe novel,he reproduce the classic historical context with a unique perspective,which will turned Albania into a mountain eagle,flying in the paper.