The famous Albanian lyricist is commemorated through photographs, manuscripts and a documentary
Southeastern Albanian town of Korca will be the center of a series of activities held on the occasion of Poradeci’s 110th anniversary of birth. The organizers of the event, Kor衧s Municipality, “Thimi Mitko” Library and Publishing House “Argeta LMG” will make sure the public to feels the poet’s presence in every detail.
Some 200 works, including photographs, poetry, translations etc will be on display on this exhibition.
Lasgush Poradeci lived the final years of his life in his beloved town of Pogradec on Lake Ohrid, tending his garden and studying the ever-changing moods of the lake. The rhythmic and gentle lapping of the waves had always been among the fundamental sources of his pantheistic verse.
Poradeci’s subjects, his structures and language were very much attuned to southern Albanian oral literature, in particular to Tosk folk verse from which he drew a good deal of his inspiration. Mitrush Kuteli, who edited his “Ylli i zemr쳢, called him “the only Albanian poet to think, speak and write only in Albanian.” Lasgush Poradeci is at the same time an artist of truly European stature. He combined the verbal sensuousness of Charles Baudelaire, the aesthetic philosophy of form and the discerning elegance of Stefan George, the humanity and philosophy of Naim Frash쳩, and the cosmic immortality of his master, Mihai Eminescu. Scholar Eqrem ȡbej said of him that he was the “poet whom Albania would one day bequeath to the world,” and although Poradeci’s verse does not lend itself particularly to translation, time may prove ȡbej right.
