THE TEXT AS A REWRITE OF CITATIONS AND TEXT WITHIN TEXT IN THE NOVEL "WHITE PALACES" WRITTEN BY VEHBI KIKAJ

Abstract

The novel "White Palaces" (“Sarajet e bardha”) by Vehbi Kikaj is one of the well-known works of
contemporary Albanian children's literature. The fact that the work is dedicated to the child as a reader, underlines
the importance of perception. The subject of the novel is a family drama which is experienced by the child character.
The novel itself as a narrative stands between the author's word that stands out as a separated text. Without
neglecting the substantive side, this paper aims to present how the phenomenon of putting the text in the text looks
practically. The starting point of the study is that there is no completely pure text since the existence of literature
itself. As the theory of intertextuality states, we consider that each text absorbs other works, is written on them, or is
at the crossroads between textual surfaces.The primary, internal texts are in some cases separated from the new
(secondary) text, but in other cases have unclear boundaries. In the analysis of this work, we rely on the positions of
well-known theorists, including Renate Lachmann and Gearad Genette. By revealing the textual interferences, the
paper will reveal the directions of communication that the work pinpoints. These lines have different directions
such as: folklore, history, even real or vacant texts that the characters talk about. The text that plays the role of the
internal text will be analyzed according to the way/technique of incorporation in the second textual material.
Examples will illustrate cases of false citations and those with authorship, some of which are clearly marked. We
find concrete examples of this in this work in the form of the story within the novel and the dream, which also has
its own internal time and is thus separated from the other text (the novel). Clarifying these distinctions, Barthe's
attitudes also are mentioned. According to him every text is created from preliminary quotations. By summarizing
these features, we aim to underline the importance of this work within contemporary Albanian children's literature.
Also, this approach tries to fill the gaps of studies of this nature which the tradition of studying Albanian literature
for children lacks.