Baykuşun Günü

According to the captain, all this was due to the fact that the family was still the only living institution in the Sicilians' consciousness; but this vitality was more like a dramatic, legal agreement than an emotional and natural union. The family is the state of Sicily. The institution that is the state for us remains outside his understanding; for the Sicilian, the state is a union of forced events and an institution that invented taxes, military service, war, gendarmes. In the institution of the family, the Sicilian, overcoming his natural and tragic solitude, adapts to a marriage and cohabitation established by a fraudulent agreement. It would be difficult to ask him to cross the line between the family and the state. He will either like the concept of the state or he will come to power and run the government; but still the last and definitive form of his life will be family, for the path of victory will provide him with the shortest path to loneliness.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 123

Year of Publication: 1994


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Can Publications

Önsöz Author : Martin Wagner

Year of First Publication : 1994

Number of Pages : 123

Language : Turkish