Ag Apolloni

"Zomb" (2009) is a madrigal book. It contains a total of 100 poems and an epistle-shaped representation. The book begins with a provocative dedication ("My Friend's Wife"), with two verses from English poet John Milton ("If death joins me with you / it will be life for me"), as it unfolds in six units: Ouverture, Edenic Waltz, Dionysian Sonata, Siren Symphony, Requiem Eros and Coda. "Zomb" is an erotic-themed book, built on the principles of the medieval madrigal. It is a book that contains many elements of classical music, jazz, blues, rock, pop, etc. .; from world cinema, from ancient, medieval, modernist, contemporary literature and also from religions such as Buddhism, Totemism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The book "Drama: Stephen, Halloween, Judith, Mat" (2010) contains three tragic dramas, which in the order of the number of characters openly display the reference to the origin of Greek drama and antique theater (to Stephen, who has only one character, fantasy leads to Thespis's carriage; Halloween includes the second character, according to Aeschylus's model, while Judith enters the third character, modeled on Sophocles), as well as a text of Aristophanes' spirit, as a relaxation for the public . Monodrama Stephen, the story of an eye collector, is a harrowing story of an eye collector living in his pantry with 4,998 eyes collected during the war in Bosnia and Kosovo. Apolloni wrote this work at the age of 21 as "an elegy for the last decade of the last century, namely a reminder of the crimes that shocked the world." Monodrama is a story that treats love and crime, life and death as a binomial that can shock the public. ”Halloween is an incestuous story about Halloween night. This drama was written by Apolloni, prompted by the reading of a feast on the life of serial killer Ted Bundy. Judith is a biblically motivated drama treated as a mythical story of the East-West conflict, of the misunderstanding between man and God, and of subjection and courage. Comedy Mat is a pastime built on the works of directors Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen, on the ridiculous confrontation between man and death.

The novel "The Howl of the Wolf" (2013) addresses many themes from multiple angles. The novel also deals with painful separation with the living and the dead. The novel is rife with despair and fury, accompanied by a dose of humor, with references to music, painting, film and theater. Events are set in Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Italy and Vienna, where the novel is completed. The novel "The Howl of the Wolf" is translated in Macedonian[9] and Czech.[10][11][12]

"Zazen" (2014) deals with the fate of a young Kosovar, a friend of the author, who after graduation returns to his homeland, but this return becomes tragic for him, as he is neglected by the municipality, misunderstood by the village, declared insane from the family. "Zazen" interlinks a variety of topics: social, philosophical, political, national, religious, etc. It tells of Zen Zabel's anxiety and tragicomic life, which has many ideas, few demands and no possibilities.

"Hamlet according to Horatio" is a psychoanalytic tragedy embodying Freud's theoretical ideas to give a possible story of Hamlet, touching on the theme of double incest (brother-sister, mother-son) and the theme of multiple betrayals. "Hamlet according to Horatio" is a pastiche, or dramatic hypertext, built on Shakespeare's Hamlet and on Freud's interpretations of Hamlet as an imperfect Oedipus. Thematically, "Hamlet according to Horatio" is an alternate story, echoed by Oresteia, Oedipus Rex, and Hamlet. This drama has been announced as the winner of the annual "Katarina Josipi" Drama Award.[13]

"Scanderbeg: Marlowe's Manuscript" is a play written according to the postmodern principle of manuscript, so as to find an Elizabethan drama of the 16th century which is considered a lost drama: "The True History of George Scanderbeg" by Christopher Marlowe. For the writing of this play the author has used many historical, literary, cinematographic and theatrical materials to create a credible reality of the Scanderbeg era. Here the hero presents himself between myth and reality, both a great and a human figure.[14]

"My Middle Ages" is a book of autobiographical essays, also referred to as narrative-essayist autobiography.[15][16] The book consists of 10 essays with Latin titles: Obscura, Vulgus, Doctrina, Pelegrin, Allegoria, Persona, Schisma, Templarius, Inquisitio and Memento, which cover the life of the author and present-day Kosovar actuality.[17]

Apart from fiction, Ag Apolloni also deals with literary studies.[18] He has so far published two study books: "Postmodern Parable" and "The Paradigm of Proteus". The first study, an extension of his master's thesis, is a monograph on the first postmodern Albanian writer, Rexhep Qosja. The second study, which is his doctoral thesis, is a monograph on the most translated Albanian novel, The General of the Dead Army, by Ismail Kadare. Also, in 2016 he published the book Konica's Suitcase, which is a collection of essays dealing with various issues of Albanian literature, such as its language, values, themes and functions of propaganda, historical, political, religious etc. It discusses the main authors, works and phenomena of this literature. In 2019 he started to publish a critical book called "Commentum", his major project in several volumes.

• Zomb (2009)
• Sandalet e Senekës (Albanian: Seneca's Sandals), (2020)

• The Howl of the Wolf (Albanian: Ulurima e ujkut), (2013)
• Zazen (2014)
• A thread of hope, a thread of match (Albanian: Një fije shprese, një fije shkrepëse), (2020)

• Stephen, Halloween, Judith, Mat (2010)
• Hamlet according to Horatio (Albanian: Hamleti simbas Horacit),(2017)
• Skanderbeg: Manuscript of Marlowe (Albanian: Skenderbeu, manuskripti i Marlout) (2018)

• The Postmodern Parable (Albanian: Parabola postmoderne), (2010)
• The Paradigm of Proteus (Albanian: Paradigma e Proteut), (2012)
• Konitza's Suitcase (Albanian: Koferi i Konicës), (2016)
• Commentum (2019)

• My Middle Age(s) (Albanian: Mesjeta ime) (2019)