Hakan Günday, who has created a unique readership with his novels, brought together his stories published in various media, including magazines and book selections, in his book titled ‘Derz‘ and presented them to his readers. The meaning of “Derz” is the gap between wall stones or bricks filled with mortar and levelled by pulling a trowel over it. 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…
George Moore (1852-1933), considered Ireland’s first great modern novelist, wrote Albert Nobbs in 1918.
The book has a perspective that breaks the taboos of the period in terms of sexuality and identity. Devamını Oku…
I leave you with my review of Mine Söğüt’s first book “Beş Sevim Apartmanı – Rüya Tabirli Cinperi Yalanları”.
Although the book is the first novel of Söğüt, one of the new talents of Turkish literature, I can say that she has written a very impressive story. His observations, his examination of the subject, his sentences and the author’s narration as if establishing a direct dialogue with the reader deeply impressed me… Devamını Oku…
Norwegian Wood is one of the books that attracted my attention by the author, whom I met about a year and a half ago. It is the second Murakami book I read after “Kafka on the Shore”. I was deeply impressed by the author’s life story and I had been waiting for a long time to read this book. I looked at the cover of the book for a long time and only with the cover design of the book, I fell into impossible dreams. I wanted to buy the book without having any idea about the content of the book. The pornographic elements in the book raised questions in the minds of some readers like me. Although I know that everyone can derive different emotions and meanings from a work, I could not help but question whether these elements were appropriate to the general narrative of the book… Devamını Oku…
