Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of WoundsIntroductionThe ‘Anthology of wounds’ was published fromARCT (Albanian Rehabilitation Centre for Trauma andTorture survivors) on the year 2004, collecting dozensof narrations in its original form, from ex-prisoners ofthe communist dictatorship. Now the foreign public hasthe possibility to have a selection of those narrations inEnglish.During the last years there have been several publicationson the theme of persecution, communism andits human consequences. But yet no collection of entirehistories and of a variety of authors such as the presenthas been published. This was not the only reason forconceiving this book. The other one, and probably themost important, has to do with the oblivion. There is atouchable, clear and important risk that everythingmight be forgotten some day and some where. It shouldbe a sociological reason to this risk of oblivion, however,and such a reason must be clarified. The presenceof two generations might be this precise reason: the Albaniansociety actually is composed from two groupsof generations: the first one, old and middle aged peoplethat have been in direct contact with the communist dictatorship.The second group is formed from the actual5