Don Quixot or Râcî?
A’mâk-ı Hayâl (Depths of Dream) (Büyüyenay Publications, 2. Print, 2016) must have been one of the first novels to come to mind when the subject…
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Noon
Fire, water, air, earth… Does life consist of these four things only? As you live, as you write, as you set out on a new…
Goethe Meets With Wittgenstein
Thomas Bernhard’s Goethe Dies (Yapı Kredi Publications, 2. print, 2017), which consists of four short stories, takes the readers on an intellectual journey. Bernhard's difference…
Forest
"We all work in the same forest." It's a line I don't forget why I said, but I don't know why I should remember. It…
The First World War, With a Different Face of It
Political or military journals are written for defense purposes. When a person realizes that he has been wronged and cannot defend himself by the judiciary…
Pomegranate
The beauty of the beginning. The bustle of preparation. It's the rush of taking the road. The enthusiasm for the reason what appears to be…
He Who Laughs Last Laughs The Longest
Tim Parks continues with the Mimi (Massimina) subject in Painting Death (Alef Publishing, 2017). Our protagonist is Morris Duckworth, of course… Events that take place…
Blue
“All air was a bird”. All day was light. All words were a poem. All poem was love. All the world was a dream... All…
The Neverending Journey of Humankind
Dünya Bir Gelindir (The World Is a Bride) (2018, Şule Publications) is among the strong works, proving that a novel unique to the East, more…
Lyric
Provisions are the poem of the one who sets off on a journey. They are the necessity of the journey. They are the joy of…
The Psychological Aspect of The Fall
Sultan Hamid Düşerken (As Sultan Hamid Falls -Oğlak Publications) is a “period novel”. Therefore, it can be easily examined under the genre of “historical novels”.…
Wing
The human will be aligned with birds when complete. To be human, maybe, will only then mean to be human. Now we are tired. We…
The Birth of Modern Poetry
E. E. Cummings is an American poet who had witnessed two world wars. He had lived in a time period when “the old world” was…