Pocket Size Classics Set-8 Book Set

Transformation

“Gregor Samsa One morning, when he woke up from restless dreams in his bed, he found himself transformed into a giant insect. He was lying on his hard shelled back, and when he raised his head a little, he could see his brown, domed belly, decorated with bow-shaped strips, which he was barely holding on to, on top of the quilt that was about to slip off. His many legs, which were pitifully thin compared to his body, were shaking helplessly before his eyes.”

The Metamorphosis, which begins with these shocking, strange sentences, is the work that best describes Kafka's literary intensity with its sharpness and simplicity.

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Coat

“Like people who set a goal to achieve at all costs, He felt full, his character was strengthened. Whatever was hesitant and hesitant in his walk and movements was gone, and a new fire began to shine in his eyes. In his most daring dreams, he sometimes even dreamed of having a marten fur collar sewn on his coat.”

The troubles suffered by the “little man”, the inequality and pain he suffered are told with a simple realism through the life of Akakiy Akakiyevich, the protagonist of this long story. . Even though such a narrative received great reaction in Tsarist Russia of the period and Gogol was accused of insulting the Russian people, it breaks new ground in Russian literature.

“We all know that Gogol's The Overcoat We came out of >.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The art that Gogol displays in The Overcoat is that parallel lines not only intersect, but also can twist like worms and become chaotic. It indicates that they can come.”

Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolay Gogol

The Extraordinary Story of Peter Schlemihl

“My dear friend, if a person is once thoughtless and strays from the right path, he strays into other paths that always lead him downwards and downwards; It is in vain that he searches for a star in the sky that will guide him; because there is no solution, it will go downhill and become a sacrifice to the goddess of revenge.”

The Extraordinary Story of Peter Schlemihl, in which the desperation of modern man is conveyed in a style unique to fairy tales, tells the story of Satan in order to obtain endless wealth. It tells the story of Peter Schlemihl, who sold his shadow to , and is humiliated and excluded by other people. This unique story of Adelbert von Chamisso, which left its mark on the history of literature, is still valid despite the passage of two centuries.

“A deep depiction of the suffering of a stigmatized and excluded man.”< /p>

Thomas Mann

Dog Chat

He was hospitalized because of an unfortunate marriage While a fallen lieutenant is lying in his sick bed, he hears two people talking on the street. The lieutenant, who is deeply attracted to the conversation, realizes that the people talking are actually the guard dogs of the hospital and transfers this miraculous conversation to paper.

The two dogs, who gained the ability to speak for a while, touch on deep issues of humanity while telling about their experiences: morality, corruption, gossip, envy, luck, honor, sneakiness, domination...

This long story of Cervantes, which contains an intense satire on the period and country in which he lived, turns into a beautiful criticism of the entire human history (and probably our future).

Kâtip Bartleby

“He was the only spectator of the loneliness of a place whose crowd he saw and knew...”

Clerk Bartleby, considered one of the cult works of world literature, is the story of a lawyer. It begins with the recruitment of a clerk to his law firm on the Street. After a while, Bartleby, who overturns the prevailing order and the most unshakable beliefs by refusing to work or even live, ties the lawyer's hands with his unusual attitude towards the world.

Bartleby is the existence version of an ordinary clerk who lives by "choosing not to" in the modern world where the individual is kept silent and forced to obey. It is a silent flag of rebellion raised against unquestioning acceptance. It is a story of rebellion that redefines freedom, where history is written differently behind a table facing a brick wall.

Chess

Chess, written by Stefan Zweig shortly before he committed suicide, is a classic that deals with cruelty, obsession, the power of the mind and the evil that this power will create, and has had a great impact all over the world since its publication. Our story, which continues an endless chess match within ourselves, between two poles like the black and white of the chessboard - good and evil, polite and rude, man and machine, mind and madness, ignorance and knowledge, greed and contentment...

New World Chess Champion Mirko

Czentovic is among the passengers on a ship going from York to Buenos Aires. Even though Czentovic is a rude, careless, ignorant and greedy person, he is a true chess genius. The people on the ship want to play a match with him. The young chess player does not refuse these requests and wins one after another, until a dignified, shy stranger appears during a match and intervenes in the game. Although this stranger says that he has not touched the chessboard for a long time, thanks to his tactics, the match ends in a draw.

Aurelia

“Sleep is an uncertain underground that gradually becomes brighter, where pale silhouettes emerge from the shadow and the night, inhabiting the purgatory, solemnly motionless.”

Nerval dreams, the world we know, and the surreal world. sees it as a means of communication between people. His writings are full of dreams and fantasies that undermine his strong bond with logic and consistency. In Aurélia, which is one of the most important examples of this and is considered his most important work, he examines the vague, mysterious line between dream and reality, madness and creativity, based on his own spiritual experiences and quests.

French Nerval, one of the important writers and poets of romanticism, who influenced the symbolism and surrealism movement as well as many writers such as TS Eliot, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Charles Baudelaire and Marcel Proust, uses images that reflect the ideals of purity, lost youth, self-realization and beauty with his unique and elegant literary style Aurélia brings together.

White Nights

“The dreamer of his old dreams He searches in vain for a spark that will warm his cold heart and bring it back to life, as if he were stirring ashes. With the spark he finds, he will rekindle the fire of those beautiful dreams that were extinguished, and he will regain the wonderful dreams that make his blood boil and make him shed tears of happiness.”

He will live in St. This is the story of four white nights of a lonely, sad, dreamer young man who could not get close to anyone in St. Petersburg, but knew the city by heart with its houses and faces.

Our dreamer encounters Nastenka during one of his ordinary night walks. This couple, who are strangers to life, soon become close enough to share their stories, troubles and dreams; When they are together, their sorrows and uneasiness do not haunt them; their nights and souls are enlightened. The loneliness of a person coexists with the possibility of opening one's heart to someone without fear in White Nights. Even if this opportunity is just for a moment, "Isn't such a moment enough for a person throughout his life?"

White Nights, which has a unique place in the oeuvre of Dostoyevsky, one of the most powerful writers of world literature. > It leaves a deep mark on the human soul with its elegant and simple style.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Translator:< /strong> İlknur İgan / Elif Ersavcı / Murat Özbank / Sinan Okan / Özlem Yüksel / Nilgün Tepeköy / Seçil Kıvrak / Baran Sayın