Feride Çiçekoğlu’s Milföy ve Arkadaşları, written after a thirty-year hiatus; Pastoral Senfoni, an introduction to the world of André Gide; Robert Musil’s Üç Kadın, focusing on female characters; Dünyanın Alacakaranlığı by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog and many more will be published by Can Yayınları in February.
Feride Çiçekoğlu / Milföy ve Arkadaşları (Puff Pastry and Friends)
In this novel written after a thirty-year hiatus, Feride Çiçekoğlu asks us to listen to the voice of Milföy, a dog abandoned in the forest. Milföy tells the story of her “re-homing” and its aftermath, along with the stories of the cats and dog friends she meets; as she tells them, she opens doors in her memory about her sad past.
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Stefan Zweig / Korku (Fear) (trans. Arif Gelen)
Adapted for the big screen by many directors, most notably Roberto Rossellini, Korku is a breathtaking long story in which Stefan Zweig, as always, skillfully probes the depths of the human soul.
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André Gide / Pastoral Senfoni (La Symphonie Pastorale – Pastoral Symphony) (trans. Şirin Etik)
André Gide based his works on the conflict between sin and desire, moral blindness, and the contradictory nature of the human self, and in this respect, Pastoral Senfoni is a profound and thought-provoking novel, an introduction to the author’s world.
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Vladimir Sorokin / Opriçnik’in Bir Günü (One Day of Oprichnik) (trans. Eyüp Karakuş)
With a vision of the future too disturbing to contemplate and too close to reality to ignore, Opriçnik’in Bir Günü is a scathing critique.
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Robert Musil / Üç Kadın (Three Women) (trans. Zehra Aksu Yılmazer)
Musil tells the story of three women from different social classes in Üç Kadın, in which he again focuses on female characters after Birleşmeler, published in 1911. Üç Kadın is the last stage before Niteliksiz Adam (The Unqualified Man), which is considered to be the life’s work of Musil, the genius recluse of the literary planet.
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Eva Balthasar / Permafrost (trans. Emrah İmre)
Catalan writer and poet Eva Baltasar, who has become one of the most talked-about writers in her country in recent years with her debut novel Permafrost, combines rebellion and elegance in this narrative, a sensitive and passionate questioning of existence beneath a layer of mysterious ice.
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Werner Herzog / Dünyanın Alacakaranlığı (The Twilight World) (trans. Pınar Akkoç)
The true story of Onoda, a soldier who spent 29 years on the island where he was stationed, which has been the subject of many films and books, is told this time by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog.
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B.S. Johnson / Christie Malry’nin Dünyayla Hesabı (Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry) (trans. Firdevs Ev)
Christie Malry is straight. She takes a job at a big bank at the age of seventeen because she needs to make money. The dreary work environment and the relationships at work make Christie grumpy. As time passes, she decides to take evening classes to learn accounting and change jobs, rather than spend years in the same bank, in her comfort zone, waiting until she is old enough to retire.
This Month in Classics
William Shakespeare / Macbeth (trans. Zeynep Avcı)
Macbeth, thought to have been written by Shakespeare in 1606, is the shortest but most striking of his tragedies. Unlike his other plays, Shakespeare focuses more on two characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and focuses on the concepts of power ambition, manipulation, greed, morality, good and evil.
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Friedrich Nietzsche / Sevgi ve Nefret Üzerine Aforizmalar (Aphorisms on Love and Hate) (trans. Anıl Alacaoğlu)
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s Sevgi ve Nefret Üzerine Aforizmalar , compiled from his Humanly, Very Humanly, published on the 100th anniversary of Voltaire’s death and dedicated to the great writer, consists of the philosopher’s reflections on the fundamental issues that humanity can never avoid pondering, such as love, hate, friendship, friendship, marriage, revenge, ambition, morality, justice, arrogance, gratitude and goodwill.
