On the show "This Week" on News24, the writer and researcher Sadik Bejko was invited.
In a conversation with Nisida Tufa, he emphasized the need to return to and re-study the Albanian cultural heritage, with legends, fairy tales, and traditions, because according to him, this is how the heritage is kept alive.
"The Albanian cultural heritage, with legends, tales, traditions, with old writers and up to the present day, is a subject that must be cultivated and processed, must be taken and taken back, must be seen from different perspectives. It is our common cultural home, a spiritual home that if we do not process, if we do not stay in it, that house remains dry, it is like a box house. If this subject that our most distinguished people have brought to us, we must study it, return to it, in this way it becomes a subject that lives with us. A book that we leave in the library is dead, the same goes for cultural heritage, it turns into a museum piece," he said.
Bejko also stopped at his publication "Ad Infinitum", which was promoted 10 days ago, and is part of the book fair.
He explained the structure of the book, emphasizing that he did not choose a dry and scholarly style, but chose details that he highlighted.
"It is a test and study, I have found the essayistic perspective, not the academic and dry study, with technical terms. I have tried to enter directly and have a direct conversation with the chosen topics. Initially, Albanian folklore is spoken of and a call is made to believe, for example, ballads as ballads, as strange and wonderful. It may seem unbelievable in the world of the internet, but a fairy tale or a ballad that a grandmother tells you, you have to believe as wonderful, without skepticism.
"In the second part, I focused on some writers of the past, but I did not take them in their scholarly sense, but I pointed out other aspects of them. It is not a strict academic study, it is more fluid," he said.
