The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey
Autor Kaya Gençen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 oct 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781788314961
ISBN-10: 1788314964
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1788314964
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
The author is one of the most hotly-anticipated writers to come out of Turkey in recent years - will appeal to readers of Orhan Pamuk, Elif Shafak and Elif Batumann
Notă biografică
Kaya Genç is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Salon, Guernica Magazine, Sight & Sound, The Millions, The White Review and TIME Magazine, among others. His first novel, L Avventura was published in 2008. Kaya has a PhD in English literature and is the Istanbul correspondent of The LA Review of Books as well as a contributing editor at Index on Censorship. He has written a history of Turkish literature for Harvard University Press, and is the author of Under the Shadow (I.B.Tauris, 2017), an account of the Gezi Park uprisings and the coup attempt of December, 2016. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Recenzii
The individual narratives of the people Genç writes about, or through, compose the book's story as a whole while situating it within the fluctuating political atmosphere of the country. This anchoring moves the reader through various human experiences - disappointment, failure, representation - with thorough exploration and deep empathy, while also examining potential future projections of a young nation.
His English has a clear, distanced perceptivity underscored by his cultural and linguistic objectivity. The Lion and the Nightingale, however, enters deeply into the work of fellow Turkish journalists who write in Turkish, with special empathy for their struggles, personalities, and careers on the other side of a distinctly opaque language barrier.
Usefully grounds Turkish current affairs in the context of the past couple of decades and explains the attraction of extreme politics to the country's youth
Whether he's putting us in the shoes of Binevs, a Kurdish cleaner, or Özge Ersoy, a Turkish curator living in Hong Kong, Genç conveys the on-the-ground experience with great empathetic clarity. The Lion and the Nightingale reminds us that, now more than ever, anything that clouds our vision - be it ignorance, credulity, cliché, fluff, propaganda, the silencing of journalists, fake news, romanticism - must be urgently dissipated.
The brilliant Kaya Genç returns again to examine modern Turkey with his blend of deep historical learning, on-the-ground reporting, and hard-won, convention-defying nuance.
"In this masterful chronicle of Turkey, Genc sketches extraordinary lives in an extraordinary time. Intimate, intelligent, detailed, full of life: It will become a classic."
Provides the reader with great insight into the lives of the characters that Genç has chosen to portray ... Genç has penetrated the soul of Turkey.
The Lion and the Nightingale is reliably neutral in its assessment of Turkey's political spectrum, critical of the shortcomings and benefits on both sides, and aware of how, in Turkey, they remarkably overlap and occupy each other's space according to the changing guards of what might be called, simply, the power establishment.
Captures the uncertainty of 2017. . . . [Genc's] account expertly weaves the details of individual lives into a historical tapestry, and each person's experiences illuminate larger changes in Turkish society happening that year. Genc's skill lies in his ability to go beyond a simple indictment of the repressive state for crushing creativity. He is aware of the privilege of his own position, the guilty comfort strongman rule can offer, and the dogmatism present both in opposition political movements as well as those in power. In his telling, Turkey emerges as a collection of perspectives and concerns--not simply the domineering tendences of one man.
In 2017, Turkish voters narrowly approved a referendum championed by Erdogan to transform the country from a parliamentary to a presidential system. The plebiscite came less than a year after an attempted coup and during a state of emergency that would continue until mid-2018. Voters were told that a strong executive would bring Turkey security and stability. But many also feared the restrictions that stability might bring. Kaya Genc, a Turkish novelist, translator, and journalist, captures the uncertainty of 2017 in The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey. He presents nearly a dozen profiles of "nightingales" - artists, actors, and writers, including himself--who want to experience the beauty of their country but cannot escape the presence of the "lion" that is state power. His account expertly weaves the details of individual lives into a historical tapestry, and each person's experiences illuminate larger changes in Turkish society happening that year. Genc's skill lies in his ability to go beyond a simple indictment of the repressive state for crushing creativity. He is aware of the privilege of his own position, the guilty comfort strongman rule can offer, and the dogmatism present both in opposition political movements as well as among those in power. In his telling, Turkey emerges as a collection of perspectives and concerns- not simply the domineering tendences of one man.
His English has a clear, distanced perceptivity underscored by his cultural and linguistic objectivity. The Lion and the Nightingale, however, enters deeply into the work of fellow Turkish journalists who write in Turkish, with special empathy for their struggles, personalities, and careers on the other side of a distinctly opaque language barrier.
Usefully grounds Turkish current affairs in the context of the past couple of decades and explains the attraction of extreme politics to the country's youth
Whether he's putting us in the shoes of Binevs, a Kurdish cleaner, or Özge Ersoy, a Turkish curator living in Hong Kong, Genç conveys the on-the-ground experience with great empathetic clarity. The Lion and the Nightingale reminds us that, now more than ever, anything that clouds our vision - be it ignorance, credulity, cliché, fluff, propaganda, the silencing of journalists, fake news, romanticism - must be urgently dissipated.
The brilliant Kaya Genç returns again to examine modern Turkey with his blend of deep historical learning, on-the-ground reporting, and hard-won, convention-defying nuance.
"In this masterful chronicle of Turkey, Genc sketches extraordinary lives in an extraordinary time. Intimate, intelligent, detailed, full of life: It will become a classic."
Provides the reader with great insight into the lives of the characters that Genç has chosen to portray ... Genç has penetrated the soul of Turkey.
The Lion and the Nightingale is reliably neutral in its assessment of Turkey's political spectrum, critical of the shortcomings and benefits on both sides, and aware of how, in Turkey, they remarkably overlap and occupy each other's space according to the changing guards of what might be called, simply, the power establishment.
Captures the uncertainty of 2017. . . . [Genc's] account expertly weaves the details of individual lives into a historical tapestry, and each person's experiences illuminate larger changes in Turkish society happening that year. Genc's skill lies in his ability to go beyond a simple indictment of the repressive state for crushing creativity. He is aware of the privilege of his own position, the guilty comfort strongman rule can offer, and the dogmatism present both in opposition political movements as well as those in power. In his telling, Turkey emerges as a collection of perspectives and concerns--not simply the domineering tendences of one man.
In 2017, Turkish voters narrowly approved a referendum championed by Erdogan to transform the country from a parliamentary to a presidential system. The plebiscite came less than a year after an attempted coup and during a state of emergency that would continue until mid-2018. Voters were told that a strong executive would bring Turkey security and stability. But many also feared the restrictions that stability might bring. Kaya Genc, a Turkish novelist, translator, and journalist, captures the uncertainty of 2017 in The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey. He presents nearly a dozen profiles of "nightingales" - artists, actors, and writers, including himself--who want to experience the beauty of their country but cannot escape the presence of the "lion" that is state power. His account expertly weaves the details of individual lives into a historical tapestry, and each person's experiences illuminate larger changes in Turkish society happening that year. Genc's skill lies in his ability to go beyond a simple indictment of the repressive state for crushing creativity. He is aware of the privilege of his own position, the guilty comfort strongman rule can offer, and the dogmatism present both in opposition political movements as well as among those in power. In his telling, Turkey emerges as a collection of perspectives and concerns- not simply the domineering tendences of one man.
Cuprins
Preface to the Paperback EditionIntroduction1. A Winter of Despair2. A Spring of Hope3. A Summer of Disssent4. A Fall of SilenceAcknowledgementsIndex
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Kaya Genc's account of modern Turkey, a country split between East and West, a rich past and an unpredictable, dangerous future.
Kaya Genc's account of modern Turkey, a country split between East and West, a rich past and an unpredictable, dangerous future.