Arshi Pipa

Arshi Pipa (* 1920 in Shkodra, † July 20, 1997 in Washington) was an Albanian writer. After the Second World War, he was soon followed by the Communist regime. He fled from Albania and then lived in the USA. There he became one of the most important intellectuals of the Albanian diaspora.

Life

After studying philosophy in Florence Arshi Pipa worked from 1941-1946 at a secondary school in Tirana as a teacher. He was one of those academics who were persecuted by the new communist authorities of Albania immediately after the war. From 1946-1956 he was a political prisoner, kept in various prisons and had to pay for the drainage of the marshes in southern Albania forced labor.

1957 Pipa fled to Yugoslavia. The following year he settled in the United States. He worked as a university professor of philosophy as well as Italian and French literature at Berkeley and Minneapolis. He wrote numerous philosophical and literary works, book reviews and essays in five different languages: English, Albanian, Italian, French and German. In his political essays he studied primarily with communism and the regime in Albania. In addition, Pipa served as editor of cultural journals of the exiled Albanians; He was also chairman of the traditional Albanian cultural association Vatra in Boston. Pipa was keen to see outside the Communist sphere of influence remained the cultural and literary traditions of the Albanians and were continued. Therefore he hired more than three decades.

At the time of the political changes in Albania (1990 ) Pipa led over the Albanian radio program American foreign broadcasts a sharp campaign against the most famous Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. He accused him of having been only the clerk of Enver Hoxha and thus a pillar of the regime. At the end of communism in Albania Kadare had contributed nothing. He replied in his turn - book Albanian spring, when he called Pipa as an author without literary originality.

Arshi Pipa died in exile in America. He was buried on 24 July 1997 in Washington. His work has remained largely unknown in Albania. Even after the fall of the communist regime, he has found in his home only a little recognition.

Works

  • Lundërtarë. (English navigator ), Tirana 1944
  • Libri i Burgut. (German prison book ), 1959
  • Rusha. Munich 1968
  • Montale and Dante. Minneapolis 1968
  • Meridiana. Munich 1969
  • Albanian folk verse. Structure and genre. Munich 1978
  • Albanian literature. Social perspectives. Munich 1978
  • Jerome de Rada. Munich 1978
  • Studies on Kosova (as ed. together with Sami Repishti ), New York 1984.
  • The politics of language in socialist Albania. New York 1989
  • Albanian Stalinism. Ideo -political aspects. New York 1990
  • Contemporary Albanian literature. New York 1991
  • Subversion drejt konformizmit. Fenomeni Kadare. (German subversion or conformism The phenomenon Kadare. ), Tirana 1999 - posthumously
  • Poezi, ed. v. Rexhep Ismajli, Peja 1998
  • Vepra. Tirana 2000 ff
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