ESSAY -THE FATE OF BOOKS AND LITERATURE IN THE PRESENT DAY AND TIMES TO COME

MIMOZA AGASTRA - ALBANIA 

Mimoza Agastra was born in 1974, in Kruja - Albania. Her childhood has gone through interpretations and commitments in directing children's shows. She has completed his studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, branch of Social Work. After completing her studies she worked at the special school "The Sun", as a social worker. She then completed two-year postgraduate studies in the Library, to be employed later at the Catholic University "Our Lady of Good Counsel", as head of this library, where she has not resumed with further specializations in this field. 

In recent years she has invested her talent as an actress in theatre, but also as a moderator for various children's and adults' shows, on different radio. Through its platform Voice Of Dreams and Voice angels, it promotes on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and Linkedin, various authors performing poems or fairy tales and offering them in the form of videos and animations, but passion the truth is the art of writing and creation. It has been dealt with literary analysis, reviews, estee, stories, novels and novels. Some of its prefaces adorn books by various Albanian authors. She is also published in literary anthology with various poets, "Trace Penash" No. 1, 2, prepared by Rifat Ismaili.

She is the author of the children's fairy tale book "The Princess and the Caterpillar," published in November 2023, by Fast Print.

She successfully praises the field of small and adult prose, the estee of various studies.

The novel " Air, Sun, Moon" is the author's second book. Soon in her projects are many books for children and adults in the genre of prose and thesis.

THE FATE OF BOOKS AND LITERATURE IN THE PRESENT DAY AND TIMES TO COME

Have you ever tried living in a room without windows, where the sun never turns its cheek, where its warmth does not penetrate dark walls and where oxygen is gradually extinguished? It would be a slow and traumatic death, a death from despair, of loneliness, of fear, of love, of lack of light, of air, of water, of lack of contact with the world.
Such is the life without the Book, without its power.
When we were little, we were told that the book was your best friend. We already understand the importance of this expression that dates back in time, but which takes on uncontrollable value still today. 
How could life be without a good friend who is there for you to hear your grievances, your heart's happiness, is there to lift you up when you fall, is there to comfort you or laugh at you just like the feeling the book gives you when you read events? You enter the imagination, you see with your eyes and I think of everything in the book. 
It tastes emotion, laughs, cries, hates, loves, personifies, sees itself, parallels, criticizes, controls. Everything happens, turns into an informative or orientative compass. As you lose in it you have pondered the power of imagination, giving yourself the opportunity to enter a gate that opens the doors of dreams where you would not want anyone to take you out.
Don't you have this perception when you're in a peak moment of reading and someone distracts you? Under your voice, you know how much you hate that interruption of such a magical process, of contact with the unreal world, where the rules are set for itself, and lives free, without the shades of society or its prejudices.
This "Escape" so longed to allow only the book or otherwise the world of literature. 
Books are power. They have magical skills to help you see things differently, colorfully, with several perspectives, increasing flexibility in facing the reality around you. 
Their diversity makes us understand many of the problems of our daily problems, giving us inspirational models, models of heroes who challenge and many knowledge of different social topics.
A man who reads or has good access to the book has more confidence and confidence, because Knowledge is power, and such a man is easily acceptable in any social circle, as he carries with him not only the intellectual baggage but also the emotional arsenal. 
I say this because literature with its presence, with its acceptance in your daily life, is an asset for you, it is like a rare accessory that presents you with a worthiness to any frequenting circle.
In addition to the performance of some intellectual, emotional, social and psychological plans, which a person, friend of the book, he has also invested in his mental health. 
One of the benefits of reading is to increase memory through reading.
This has had a strong impact especially on disorders neurologically. 
Despite the typology of the book, studies show that the book lowers your stress levels, helps you relax, as it focuses you on distracting yourself from what you've become anxious about.
Have you ever noticed how it invites you to adventures, to action, to passion, to flirts, to strangers?
It inspires you to move to new dimensions, stimulates your creativity. 
You have noticed that as you are reading, you can predict the end of the novel, so you fire your imagination and give way to your thoughts.
So many benefits, why do you read so little? What's going on? Why was there more thirst for the book before? Was it the only bridge of communication and secure information? 
Did technological developments diminish the beauty of this magic? Did nature get bored with us that many of its trees were cut down for the paper production destination and prompted another form of reading such as that of iPad screens, smartphones, etc. 
The smell of the book, however, is characteristic of nostalgics lack, the sense of touch and marking impressive passages, you also lack.
You mean, you can even read the iPad on the iPad, you can even read at night in the room without having to turn on the lamp. Here's a technology advantage in this regard. In fact, scientifically, this is completely harmful. We come back to the assertion that nature protects and the hand of man kills. Nature gives away man. Nature gives us the opportunity to take it and use it carefully, while man gives us the opportunity to live in luxury at health costs. In simple judgment I would choose the paper format book and on a trip I would choose to listen to an audiobook, if I were lucky that the voice that accompanied me would be in sync with my emotional state. 
The diversity and varieties today are such that they allow you to access written information in different formats. It's you who chooses. Choose something that will make you feel, or something that it makes you look good, without taking into account any of the above factors mentioned.
I want to go back to the puzzle: Why was there more reading, discussing more, in groups raising opinions about the event of a book X, books were circulated with each other, libraries had more readers? Who had the longest reader's folder in book titles borrowed from the library?
What is the NNCD for today? What do they circulate with each other? What do they discuss when they meet in groups? Which character would they like to be? Don't you think this picture is sad? I am sure that the answers to the above questions if I were to do a survey would be the same and that would be pessimistic about the future of this phenomenon and society as a whole.
I heard a dialogue of teenagers who had nailed one of their peers who was currently reading a book because his mother somehow had been reading a book she had "forced" him to read for his own good and would receive a "reward", which psychology also recognizes as the theory of rewarding positive behavior.
Do you know how he was attacked when he confirmed this fact? Looser, Looser called him. That's the expression today for someone reading today. In the teenage minds, someone who reads is lost. Absurd! This is all but sad and scary, shocking even. If the family finds "rewarding forms" to educate reading, society bullies. What is the fate of this teenager? The same as the literature? Will this fate befall this society? Something must change in the pen of writing of each of us so that we can draw the young people back to us. Isn't it our mission to awareness, educate, to spread knowledge?
Together with simple things without too much philosophy, without too much cliché, we can grab their attention, with the desire to recover once more we give you the place that the fathers of literature gave him with such dignity. It's our time...

Prepared by Angela Kosta Executive Director of MIRIADE Magazine, Academic, journalist, writer, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, translator