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…
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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…
Gesture
Let’s say that I said “journey is a style of a gesture.” Whose gesture is it toward whom? Passenger’s gesture toward journey or the opposite?…
A New Proposal of Morality
Nurettin Topçu -Çağdaş Bir Dervişin Dünyası- (The World of a Modern Dervish) (Dergâh Publications, 2019) presents different characteristics from the other books written on Nurettin…
Ithaka
I wonder if it is really how it is written in books or guides, is Ithaka an island among the Ionian Islands, the one that…
Victory of The Good
The Night of Wishes (Pegasus Yayınları, 2017) can be examined along with Michael Ende’s other book Momo. Michael Ende treats the issue of evil in…
Whistle
There is this thing called road conditions. There are road songs, road rhymes. There are also some people like me, who call these actually the…
Beyond Friendship and Hostility
Konuşanlar, Bir Hüzünle Sesinde (2015, Can Publications) consists of Ziya Osman Saba’s articles, talks, and letters, which were published in magazines and newspapers. Sincerity is…
The Grasshopper
There are two g’s (g and ğ) in the Turkish alphabet. Each one is softer than the other. One is at the beginning of August…
Taking Accounts of All Contradictions
Tarık Buğra may be compared with Kemal Tahir in terms of investigating, questioning and telling all aspects of the topics he treated. The concern of…