After a few words about the author, I will move on to the novel. I confess that I have never read Sevimay before. Will I read her again? Definitely yes. I loved her language. It is fluent, plain and not tiring. She has a simple but deep narrative that draws the reader in without tiring them. Devamını Oku…
Ferit Edgü had this book published in 1977. The novel is told through the language of an orphaned teacher in a remote village.
Is it madness after ignoring your past?
Should we say it’s okay if it happens or not anymore, to every stirrings of life?
How far should one be content with what one has?
In what way should one embrace what is human?
Ferit Edgü asks many more questions. Devamını Oku…
“You have a marvelously beautiful face, Mr. Gray. Don’t frown. Beauty is a kind of genius, even greater than genius, because it needs no explanation. Beauty is one of the sublime phenomena of the earth, like sunlight, like springtime, like the reflection of that silver shell we call the moon in the dark waters. Its greatness cannot be questioned. Sovereignty is its divine right. She bestows princedoms on those who possess her. Smiling, huh? Well, you won’t smile when you lose your beauty” Devamını Oku…
There is a smell of loneliness, exile, choosing life over death in “Sins and Innocents (Masumlar)”.
The author flashes back to the past in Cambridge and Haymana Plain and tells us the stories of people connected to each other. Devamını Oku…
I would like to talk a little bit about the novel “Never Let Me Go” by the Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro. The novel is a dystopian work about the life of cloned children, showing that people need to take good care of their own bodies in order to live for others and to keep others alive. Devamını Oku…
