"'Fish City', Tuesday in mourning for Kadarena"/ Gjergj Luca, touching dedication to the luminary of Albanian letters

2024-07-01 17:06:00, Kulturë CNA

"'Fish City', Tuesday in mourning for Kadarena"/ Gjergj

Entrepreneur Gjergj Luca

The luminary of Albanian letters, Ismail Kadare, passed away this Monday at the age of 88 from natural causes.

Among many comforting messages, a touching dedication to Kadare has come from entrepreneur Gjergj Luca.

The latter, through a video message, shows the impact that the great Kadare left on his family, remembering the words of his late grandmother.

Gjergj Luca says that the Albanian writer is among the few gentlemen in Albania, while emphasizing that the word gentleman should not be used casually for any man.

The entrepreneur declares that he has declared Tuesday a day of national mourning in "Fish City" and will lower the national flag to half-mast.

The luminary of Albanian letters, Ismail Kadare

Full message:

In that period when we grew up and were formed, in our society and in our families the word god was used very little. From the few times that I have heard from my grandmother, the word "God" has been for this man, when she was excited after every writing of this man, she would start the word "Mr. Ismaili has conveyed this thought, conveyed this idea, it was so emotional, he wanted to say this or that thing and you know that in that period we used the word friend and the word sir was used for very few people, it was used for very few men, for very few artists, doctors and engineers who really deserved the word sir .

Times passed, dear Ismail, and the word friend, which was then commonly used, and now in this period in which we live, was replaced by the word lord. So in this country now there are too many lords and there are too few, and fewer and fewer friends. Strange, now that I read that you have gone to heaven or that you have passed away, the first thing that bothered me was what my grandmother said about you, sir.

Shameful, my friends, shameful in this country, to whom do we say today, Lord. Lord, we say to all creation, to all scum, to all the greedy.

Do those people deserve to be lord and be called the same as this man, when this man was called lord when everyone was called friend? And when we made rumors about this man, we did what he wanted to say, and the rumors of that time have been replaced by the nature and the animals and the barbarism of these types of gentlemen, of these types of dogs, which non-stop, daily poison the minds, the soul of Albanians, do you have any shame friends?!

Shame on us for not being able to protect the few gentlemen who are left in this country, the few gentlemen who still have some courage like this man who tell the truth.

Lord, Lord Ismail, tomorrow in my city there will be national mourning, all my workers, all the people I know, will be talking about you and tomorrow our flag will be at half-mast for this great man of the history of Albania that has only told the truth./ CNA