When I picked up the book "Emblem" by the author Isak Guta, conceived in the years 1979-80 and published in 2016, almost forty years later, my mind went far away, in the 60s of the last century, when in the Normalen of Elbasan we were studying the masterpiece of the great Shakespeare, the tragedy "Hamlet".
Those years remained unforgettable in the memory, because the interpretation of the role of Hamlet by our actor Aleksandër Moisiu on the screen of the city's "11 November" cinema was amazing. The voice of the great actor with the famous Hamlet monologue still echoes in my boyish mind of that time: "To live, or not to live"?! Hamdi Hysuka writes in "Albanian".
I grew up with books and I still don't stop reading. That, as the book lover, Benedict Cumerbatch, English actor and producer says: “Reading is one of the greatest pleasures. Once you start reading and love the book, you won't stop because there are so many stories to read." And indeed, this has happened to me and to many others.
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To write about a great artist of the Albanian nation is a great, unrewarded merit, that Aleksandër Moisiu was honored by Europe at the beginning of the XNUMXth century. The well-known director and researcher, Isak Guta, has written all his life and continues to write about this world-famous artist of Albanian origin. It has been and continues to be dealt with the figure of Moses, with the main goal of giving the reader as he is, among the most elite world actors of his time.
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It is enough to read and browse the book "Emblem", to continue with the series of other publications, until "Moses and the deed of the book", to be convinced that the creativity of the author Isak Guta is valuable, written simply, with unmatched culture and professionalism. Special attention has been paid to Moisiu's artistic activity in theater tours of all European capitals, from Vienna, Berlin, Moscow to the USA, Mexico, Argentina, etc., where he has performed in the works of the world's greatest playwrights. : Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, L. Tolstoy, Moliere, Lessing, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Ibsen, Strinberg, Pirandelo, Bernard Shout, etc. The value of the book is also the activities of Moisiu as a director, film actor, playwright, etc. But Isak Guta's series of publications about Aleksandër Moisiu, compared only to himself, were preceded by other titles. It could not have happened otherwise, when the nobleman Guta remained in the archives and libraries of Austria, Germany, France, etc., always looking for materials and evaluations from prominent personalities of the theater and world culture for the Albanian artist.
The first book, published and promoted at the Albanological Institute of Pristina, is entitled "The Great among the Great", April 2006. Then, among books with other themes, it continues until the seventh work... Thus, in a linear way, the tireless Isak Guta designed the "Rebirth of Moses" project, the largest to date. He and only he knows very well what sacrifices it took to get here. After a 40-year creative work of his, it is impossible not to call this project major.
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Every day more and more books are published, especially from the elderly generation. But no matter how much has been written and published about the icon of European cinematography, the engaging work "Moses and the deeds of the book" by the author Isak Guta has its own peculiarities. The title itself helped me walk page after page and live with the author's many works. Identified as a "Moisian scholar", Guta says that from an individual position he did as much as he could... This is the truth, like the light of the sun. Although with minimal support from concrete institutions, the journey of the figure of the famous artist has not stopped. Because, with so much that has been done, through numerous activities, it has been proven that the figure of Moses is alive, he has no age. The author's objective remains that this journey continues throughout the area with an Albanian majority in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia.
According to researchers, today more than ever, we need the promotion of our values. More specifically, language, culture, tradition are common ethnic elements of Albanians, which unite us all. The preservation of linguistic, cultural and customary wealth is the most necessary for the diaspora. That it has been proven that the originality and identity of the national art have been preserved through numerous activities.
The legendary figure of Moses is representative of the identity of the Albanian nation with hundreds of years of roots in the cradle of European culture.
- With the strength of the Albanian world and the conscience of a great world man, - the author emphasizes and repeats, - the most praised Albanian in Europe and the world has been proven. During the cognitive review of the life and work of this great actor, I cannot help but mention the evaluations that have been given to Moses as "extraordinary professionally, extraordinary and as a person".
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-Through his voice, -writes the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, -Moses entered deeply into the hearts of the entire German nation. While Franz Kafka, Czech writer, says that "Moses is an artist, whose success comes from his head, from the mouth of his wonderful voice and from his eyes the look that speaks so much".
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Vrtete in Durrës is a two-story, 200-year-old museum building, in which the family of Aleksandër Moisiu, the world-famous Albanian actor, lived. And the sea nearby is what it used to be, but the city and the people have changed. It is no coincidence that the name of this great actor is associated with the theater and the early traditions of Durrës and wider. Many of our artists have followed the path of the great Aleksandër Moisiu, immediately after the liberation of Albania from Nazi-fascism and later also in Kosovo with Milehate Ajeti, Bekim Fehmiu and others...
According to the assessments of numerous Albanian and foreign language publications, the figure of Aleksandër Moisiu has taken root in the cradle of European culture. Heroically, in the heart of Europe, he achieved his rise to an Albanian, European and world figure.
But... in the pre-jubilee years of the 140th anniversary of his birth, the figure of Moisiu happened to advance in art-education, in the university space, starting from "Aleksandër Moisiu" University in Durrës to "Kadri Zeka" in Gjilan... But with all the calls and stirring of ideas, the Annual Project still has works waiting to be completed at the level of the municipalities and from the Universities known as: "Hasan Prishtina" in Kosovo, "Ukshin Hoti" in Prizren, "Isa Boletini" in Mitrovica , in Tetovo, Tirana, Vlorë, Gjirokastër, Skopje and more...
So that the journey of the figure, as if Moses were alive, must be mastered and led by the institutions of the motherland, here and there across the border. As for the author and moisian researcher, Isak Guta, we wish him good health.
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At the end of this modest writing about the book "Moisiu and the work of the book", I heartily congratulate the author Isak Guta, both for this publication and others before him, especially "Emblem" with 500 pages and over 200 photographs/Albania.
(The author is the chairman of the Club of Writers and Artists "Pjeter Budi" in Mat)
