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Sleeping in the Forest
Faik, Sait. Ed(S): Halman, Talat Sait; Warner, Jayne L.
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Paperback. Features 22 stories, an excerpt from a novella, and fifteen poems rendered into English by some of the best-known translators of Turkish literature. Sait Faik's chiaroscuro world is brought into focus by an introductory essay on utopian poetics and lyrical stylistics of this Turkish writer. Editor(s): Halman, Talat Sait; Warner, Jayne L. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
Sait Faik may well be named "the Turkish Chekhov". In Turkey, critics and readers regard him as their finest short story writer. Since his death in 1954 at the age of forty-eight, his stature has grown on the strength of his narrative art, which is both realistic and whimsical with a poetic touch. Suha Oguzertem, a premier authority on Turkish fiction, writes in his introduction to Sleeping in the Forest that "As an anti-bourgeois writer and fierce democrat, Sait Faik has always sided with the underdog" and that no characters remain " 'common' or 'ordinary' once they enter Sait Faik's ... Read more
Sait Faik may well be named "the Turkish Chekhov". In Turkey, critics and readers regard him as their finest short story writer. Since his death in 1954 at the age of forty-eight, his stature has grown on the strength of his narrative art, which is both realistic and whimsical with a poetic touch. Suha Oguzertem, a premier authority on Turkish fiction, writes in his introduction to Sleeping in the Forest that "As an anti-bourgeois writer and fierce democrat, Sait Faik has always sided with the underdog" and that no characters remain " 'common' or 'ordinary' once they enter Sait Faik's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Middle East Literature in Translation
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815608042
SKU
V9780815608042
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About Faik, Sait. Ed(S): Halman, Talat Sait; Warner, Jayne L.
Sait Faik (1906-1954) is the most well-known and best-selling short story writer of Turkish literature. Talat S. Halman is professor and chairman of Turkish literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He is the author of many books including Contemporary Turkish Literature: Living Poets of Turkey. He has also written two volumes of poetry: Shadows of Love and The Last ... Read more
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