Goethe’s “Faust” has long been regarded as one of the fastest-spreading works, and with the largest initial print run in European history; at least four of its lines still stay in the mind of every modern reader: “Do not play with your pain/For it will turn life into hell./Even t
— And the harshest criticism of the past, if not accompanied by a practical proposal, is worthless today for Albania The country’s leaders have rightly been reminded of the problem of memory. Even if it is true that previous governments were not an example of democratic and parli