Sleeping in the forest : stories and poems / Sait Faik ; translated from the Turkish ; editor, Talat S. Halman ; associate editor, Jayne L. Warner.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sait Faik, 1906-1954.

Contributor:

• Halman, Talât Sait.
• Warner, Jayne L.

Series:

• Middle East literature in translation

Standardized Title:

• Works. Selections. English. 2004

Language:

• English
• Turkish

Subjects (All):

• Sait Faik, 1906-1954--Translations into English.
• Sait Faik, 1906-1954.

Physical Description:

xxx, 199 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2004.

Contents:

• Guide to Turkish spelling and pronunciation
• Chronology: Sait Faik
• Introduction: Sait Faik's utopian poetics and the lyrical turn in Turkish fiction / by Süha Oğuzertem
• Stories
• World for sale
• A treasure hunter
• The kingdom
• The man with the bestial smile
• Life outside the city walls
• The Stelyanos Hrisopulos
• A tale of 1,476 nickel kuruş
• The gramophone and the typewriter
• The story that dropped in my lap
• The lower cabin
• From a cloud in the sky
• From The courtroom
• The tea thieves
• The lead from Sultan Mahmud's tomb
• The wiring of the Holy Virgin's lamp
• The battle
• Eftalikus's coffeehouse
• The hermit crab
• Who cares?
• Such a story
• Barba antimos
• Sleeping in the forest
• A man created by loneliness
• Four stories of a shore
• Master Yani
• The Armenian fisherman and the lame seagull
• From the novella "The source of livelihood": A fishing boat
• Poems
• The friend
• Sundays
• Apple and fig
• Letter I
• Letter II
• Not to be able to write
• Naples
• Girl from İmroz
• Compote
• Sicilian forests
• Back when
• Glossary of Turkish names and terms
• Biographical notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0815608047

OCLC:

56559543