Anton Pashku, writer, died in Pristina. He was born in Grazhdanik, near Prizren, in 1937. He completed primary school and five grades of high school in Prizren, while the last three grades at the Prishtina High School. All his life he worked in “Rilindja” (“Renaissance”)paper, once a journalist, then editor of the culture section and in the last twenty years editor in the editorial office of “Rilindja” publications. He started to publish his literary writings since 1955. He wrote prose and drama. He is the author of Albanian themes and universal forms, which he turned into a cult, percepting the work as identifiable with the existence of the modern national culture. He wrote and published his literary work in Pristina. Anton Pashku’s literary work is narrative (stories and novels) and dramaturgical. But even in the novel, he preserved the story as a genre of prose, while the dramas, at least as a discourse, preserve the properties of the narrative. The story is the dominant genre in Anton Pashku’s literary work. His stories are thematically existential and national, always universalized. Thus, the tower is not the linear figure of tradition, but the open figure of essence and national existence in the vortex of universal (harsh) existence. Anton Pashku’s stories are woven into three basic thematic circles: of love, of loneliness required and conditioned by a totalitarianism, and the thematic circle of violence against the individual. The novel “Oh” is Anton Pashku’s best-known work. The novel bends the theme (of loss) in the universal, national (oral and historical) and individual variant. (In the photo: Anton Pashku)
Text: The encyclopedic dictionary of Kosovo – Vol. II , Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Prishtina, 2018, page 1259–1260.
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