An extraordinary story book from Enver Karahan! “Bir Yanılsamanın Tragedyası” is on sale with the assurance of Liman Yayınları. There are 25 stories in the 180-page book and the foreword belongs to the author Erdal Çakıcıoğlu.
After his poetry book titled “Zamana Yenik Düşler“, Enver Karahan touches upon the human states caused by anxiety and mental breakdowns and the negativities created by social problems on life in the situation / section stories in “Bir Yanılsamanın Tragedyası“.
“Bir Yanılsamanın Tragedyası” is available from selected bookstores and online book sites.
From the Promotional Bulletin:
I resemble the ruins of a city that longs for light. The hum goes away, the darkness goes away, my mother’s voice…
It was years ago, “breakfast is ready,” she said and left, leaving her voice to this world. I was left in the mouldy life of this world. I was like tea left at the bottom of a glass, cold and bitter. I was experiencing the broken pot in a conversation, the dystopian anxieties that appear in anxiety attacks, the desperation of a poet who searches for years for the word to be added to a poem. A word comes to my mind, and as I rush to pen and paper, words cling to the wing of a bird entering through the open window and fly away. My astonished gaze is caught on the swaying curtain. While my cathotonic state occupies the whole house, giganteuses sprinkle their mocking glances on me from dark spaces. A song plays on the radio, I switch it on; the funeral in the next flat comes to my mind, first the radio, then I shut up. I feed my fish in the aquarium with the crumbs left over from my dreams.
Am I the only one upset that my door mat is clean? I think about the sound of my doorbell for a moment, how was it? I open the door, step on my clean doormat and put my head against the bell. I can’t remember the last time I heard this sound…
Who is Enver Karahan?
Born in 1983 in Izmir, he graduated from Anadolu University, Department of Economics and continues his education at Anadolu University, Department of Turkish Language and Literature. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of “Beşinci Sanat” Literature, Culture and Art website. His stories, poems and review articles are published in various magazines / literature sites. He took part in the compilation books titled “Cumhuriyetin 100. Yılında İz Bırakan Kalemler“, “Şiir Treni” and “Öykü Dükkanı“. He still lives in Kocaeli. He is married and has one child.
