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Dossier: "Nazim Hikmet – How lovely it is to remember you"
This issue's dossier is a memorial to Nazim Hikmet who passed away on 3 June 1963 and includes articles on the various aspects of the poet's life.
Ali Galip Yener
Nazim Hikmet poetry and remembering the future
Ali Galip Yener examines Nazim Hikmet's final poetry collection, including the 130 poems written while in exile between 1959 and 1963. Yener argues that the collection, titled Last Poems, is a summary of Hikmet's artistic life and describe the dialectic coexistence of the lyrical ego and his socialist-realist thought. The article specifically highlights The Traitor – a poem that "responds to a tangible, current issue and posits a class-based objection".
S. N. Uturgauri
"Nazim Universities"
Uturgauri writes that Nazim Hikmet, through his "lectures", has helped draw a path for the representatives of national culture, including Kemal Tahir, Orhan Kemal and Ibrahim Balaban, and analyses his influence on these people.
Müslim Celik
Notes on the "Weeping Willow"
Celik analyzes the "Weeping Willow" by Nazim Hikmet, and argues that while Orhan Veli poetry severed the ties with tradition, Nazim Hikmet poetry draws on tradition instead.
Turgay Fisekci
"It all boils down to being Tahir and Zühre – to the heart"
Fisekci analyzes "The Tahir and Zühre Problem" by Nazim Hikmet. He claims that Hikmet succeeded in transcending conditions imposed by his surroundings to become a pure human.
Nalan Barbarosoglu
Interview with Tahsin Yücel
Tahsin Yücel speaks of his latest novel, Sonuncu (The Last)
Reyhan Yildirim
Selim Ileri and a life of mauve night
An analysis of Selim Ileri's latest novel Bu Yalan Tango (This Excuse for a Tango)
Mustafa Serif Onaran
The provost of Turkish: Dogan Aksan
An article on the works of linguist Dogan Aksan, who recently passed away
Mehmet Rifat
Functions of the narrator
Mehmet Rifat analyses the types and respective functions of narrators in novels and short stories, with reference to Roman Jacobson and Gerard Genette.
Melike Belkis Aydin
Remembering Zeyyat Selimoglu ten years after his death
A study of Selimoglu's short stories
A. Mümtaz Idil
Email as a new literary genre
Idil investigates email as the successor to letters and a new literary genre
Aydin Afacan
A myth on the verge of "intensity" and "destruction":
Odysseus and "the marketplace"
An analysis of the poem "Odysseus" by Ahmet Oktay
Hasan Bülent Kahraman
Entering the womb of Europe – I
Hasan Bülent Kahraman says: "The Greeks taught the world that man is a tragic creature. He always has to make decisions, and this is very difficult." He also comments on ancient Greek architecture and the significance of Ancient Greece in Freud's school of thought in the context of his visit to the Parthenon.
Feridun Andac
The Accompanist
An article on the diaries of authors, specifically referring to Dostoyevsky, Nin and Woolf
Haydar Ergülen
As the days go by
Haydar Ergülen provides an account of his impressions of a breakfast meeting of writers called by prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the reactions he received from intellectual circles following his attendance.
Tozan Alkan
Interview with Ari Cokona
Cokona, a translator of Greek and Turkish, speaks of his view of translation and the differences between the literatures of the two countries.
Published 2010-06-21
Original in Turkish
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