Përpjekja shqiptare

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Përpjekja shqiptare - issue of February - March 1938

Përpjekja shqiptare (English: The Albanian Endeavour), published by Branko Merxhani, and administered by Petro Marko was a literary magazine, published in Tirana, Albania from 1936 to 1939.[1]

The magazine was published monthly is said to have had a great influence on the modernization of the cultural life of Albania at that time. The magazine offered to the contemporary readers modern Albanian literature in prose and poetry, as well as translations from modern foreign authors. In addition it included essays on philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, linguistics, archeology, and history. It propagated a spiritual and cultural rebirth, called Neo-Albanianism (Albanian: Neo-shqiptarisma), with a view on Western Europe.[2][3]

Although it published only 27 times, the magazine had a notable influence on the Albanian culture. 1 issue was translated into French language.[4]

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  1. ^ Elsie, Robert (2004). "The National Role of the Albanian Literary Journals". In Marcel Cornis-Pope; John Neubauer (eds.). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 93. ISBN 90-272-3455-8.
  2. ^ Ars Poetica. Ars Poetica Nr. 5, Mars 2008. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-304-50057-1.
  3. ^ Viron Koka (1985). Rrymat e mendimit politiko-shoqëror në Shqipëri: në vitet 30 të shekullit XX. Akademia e Shkencave e RPS të Shqiperisë, Instituti i Historisë. p. 110.
  4. ^ Blendi Fevziu (1996). Histori e shtypit shqiptar 1848-1996. Brezi 22. p. 56.