!THE WRITER IS THE NATURAL ENEMY OF DICTATORSHIP ----Ismael Kadare---- It is often thought that in tragic times when dictators explode, so too does literature. But dictatorship and literature really can coexist in one form only: gnawing away at each other day and night. The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. He fights it every moment, even when he thinks it is asleep. Because this is in his genetic code. Dictatorship and literature really cannot be depicted as anything else but two wild animals that wrestle continuously. But it being the case that their claws are different, so too are the wounds they cause. The wounds sustained by the writer are fearsome, in as much as they are immediate. Whereas the wounds that he causes the dictator are slow to develop, but of the kind that never heal. In so far as the writer’s opposition to dictatorship is an instinctive inbred reaction against an external violence, so too the works of the writer, instead of retreating from the savagery of tyranny, become harsher Source: Aspects of Dictatorship Ismail Kadare vol. L, no. 1, Winter 2011
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