Living for His Work
Ezra Pound and His World (Edebi Şeyler, 1st Print, 2016) is interesting in terms of reflecting how Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was perceived during his lifetime.…
BOOK ANALYSIS
Great Lives That Go On In Simplicity
Baltar (Şule Publications, 2018) is the first novel of Şule Köklü. Debuts are usually introverted, individual and autobiographical. It is hard to say the same…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…