Shqiptarët përballë mbretit të tyre gjerman - Romani Viti i mrapshtë i Kadaresë

Ismail Kadare’s novel “The Dark Year” is a work that exemplifies the Albanian relationship with the other. The event is set in Albania, when the German Prinz Wilhelm zu Wied was named King of Albania. The new King, being of another nationality and religion, is not welcome to all Albanians, some of whom ask him to become like them, at least religiously. So they demand from the other not to be different, they demand the other to be like them.Ismail Kadare, addressing the subject of the other within the Albanian historical framework, has dealt with the behavior of Albanians towards foreigners and has focused on the clash of different identities (individual, clan, religious, national) to create a clutter within the confession, thematically dominated from the shadow of the other.