Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.17685/Peristil.68.6
Intermedial testimonies of trauma: Bashkim Shehu’s Angelus Novus between image and text
Veron Dobroshi
orcid.org/0000-0002-6293-0954
; independent researcher
Abstract
This paper analyzes Bashkim Shehu’s Angelus Novus through the lens of intermediality, tracing its dialogue with Paul Klee’s painting and Walter Benjamin’s interpretation. Shehu reconfigures the angel as a narrative device that links Albanian dictatorship trauma with European modernist thought. By pairing Benjamin’s exile with Mark Gjoka’s suffering under communism, the novel situates local memory within global catastrophe, showing how intermediality bridges art, history, and philosophy.
Keywords
intermediality; painting; literature; Albanian; memory; modernism; Paul Klee; Walter Benjamin
Hrčak ID:
352178
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Publication date:
16.10.2026.
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