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A useless man : selected stories / Sait Faik Abasiyanik ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe.
Van Pelt Library PL248.S288 A2 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sait Faik, 1906-1954, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Turkish
- Subjects (All):
- Sait Faik, 1906-1954--Translations into English.
- Sait Faik.
- Sait Faik, 1906-1954.
- Short stories, Turkish.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2014.
- Summary:
- Sait Faik Abasiyanik was born in Adapazari in 1906 and died of cirrhosis in Istanbul in 1954. He wrote twelve books of short stories, two novels, and a book of poetry. His stories celebrate the natural world and trace the plight of iconic characters in society: ancient coffeehouse proprietors and priests, dream-addled fishermen adn poets of the Princes' Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. Many stories are loosely autobiographical and deal with Sait Faik's frustration with social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the slow but steady ethnic cleansing of his city. His fluid, limpid surfaces might seem to be in keeping with the restrictions that the architects of the new Republic placed on language and culture, but the truth lies in their dark, subversive undercurrents.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Turkish.
- ISBN:
- 9780914671077
- 0914671073
- OCLC:
- 886672732
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