It was rare early on when Ismail Kadare publicly expressed his love for his wife, Helena, but on her birthday the great writer spared no effort to show her role in his life.
During an interview with "Panorama", Kadare refuses to make her a traditional wish, and even stays away from the clichés of romantic statements, implying that too many words would only "lower" the special relationship they have between them.
"Helena is the closest woman to me in this world, from the beginning of our acquaintance until now. In the end, if we can call it the end of this last part of our lives. Helena is my closest man, who has me given all the joys of this world and to which I feel obliged for everything. "
Kadare, describes their relationship as "eternal" and for him, this kind of relationship can not have an accurate linguistic definition.
"Usually, in this world, beautiful, big, eternal things can not stand the definition in linguistic sentences, in words, the grammatical mechanisms of a language, so I would not take on such an adventure," he continues. .
Helena Kadare, is not only the wife of a brilliant writer, but is also one of those writers who broke taboos in her writing. In the history of Albanian literature before and after the '90s, the name of Helena Kadare will often appear not only as a prose writer: (her first novel "A difficult birth" was published in 1976, to continue with "A woman from Tirana ”and“ Husbands ”), but also as an Albanian (mainly after the '90s).
One of the most discussed books by Helena is undoubtedly "Insufficient Time", a book with personal memories that start with the author's childhood and up to the acquaintance with Kadare and life with him.
Despite her talent in the world of letters, Helena Kadare very generously chose to focus her extraordinary talent and fame on one name, that of her husband.
Source: Panorama
