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…
Materialism and Narcissism: Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
“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…
The Blend of Innocence and Pain: Burhan Sönmez – Sins and Innocents (2011)
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…
A Dystopian Work: Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go (2005)
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…
Remaining Without Identity: George Moore – Albert Nobbs (1927)
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…