1Title: Fashizmi dhe Fryma Shqiptare (Fascism and the Albanian Spirit)

2Originally published: Tirana: Distapur, 1940

3Language: Albanian

4The excerpts used are from the original edition, pp. 19, 23–24, 45, 63, 90, 96, 105, 152,154, and 171.

About the author

5Lazër Radi [1916, Prizren, Kosovo–1998, Tirana]: poet, translator, and political activist. He finished his primary education in his native town. In 1929, following reprisals from the Serbian authorities as a result of his brother’s refusal to serve in the military, Radi left Prizren and moved to Albania. For a year, he attended the secondary school in Tirana, and in 1931 continued his secondary education in the public gymnasium of Shkodra. There he came in contact with young Albanian intellectuals who were attending the same school and who entered the Albanian literary scene in the 1930s. It was during this period that Radi published his first articles and translations. In 1938, he obtained a scholarship from the Italian govern