Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of WoundsNothing here is fictional, existing in the hard hyperrealismof arrests, relationships between the prisonersand the people who tortured them, the midnight tortures,the rapes, the big revolts in the camps of Spacand Qafe Bari — the only one in the prisons of the communistempire — the shootings, the disappearances, andmany others. But we don’t have here only a cold bookof facts and numbers. We are dealing with real literature– made of harsh rocky scenery in the dark werethrough a miracle of tears and emotions that, like grass,come above the gravestones of death.So this anthology is a close as possible to the writingsof torture and suffering from those that sufferedand were tortured in cells by criminals vested withpower in the criminal abandonment of the anti-country.Not all of them are writers, but they tried to do theirbest, and surely not all are well known in literature, butmany of the authors are mentioned later as famous personalitiesin the country’s culture that once freed from theprison years later, were valued in different countries anddifferent languages in the Europe and all over the world.This tells that the crime against them has been double, theywere maltreated first as people, then as talents.They wanted to kill them before death, killing theirworks before they were born.In the meantime, I think about the pain the authorsof the anthology have endured, while trying to choosethe works of their fellow sufferers. The term “anthology”is an old Greek phrase, meaning “to choose flowers,”the authors had to choose among wounds withblood on the petals.15