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Sleeping in the Forest: Stories and Poems: Middle East Literature in Translation

Autor Sait Faik Editat de Talat S. Halman, Jayne L. Warner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2004
Sait Faik may well be narned "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 stories; his piercing gaze and thoughtful vision transform them lovingly into unique beings." Sait Faik's fiction ranges from the realistic to the surrealistic, from the romantic to the modern, from the cynical to the compassionate. With virtuosic skill, he captures the spirit and the spleen of the city of Istanbul and its environs. In evoking the mystery of that great metropolis through such ordinary characters as Armenian fishermen, Greek Orthodox priests, and the disillusioned and disfranchised, he creates for us a marvelous microcosm of tragicomedy. Few writers, in Turkey or elsewhere, command Sait Faik's mastery of the ironic. Sleeping in the Forest features twenty-two 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 great Turkish writer. The book is a stimulating exploration into Turkish mood and milieu.
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ISBN-13: 9780815608042
ISBN-10: 0815608047
Pagini: 199
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Syracuse University Press
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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 the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He is the author of over sixty books, including Con-temporary Turkish Literature and Living Poets of Turkey. He has also published many volumes of his own poetry including two in English, Shadows of Love and A Last Lullaby.

Jayne L. Warner is director of research at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in New York.