Fundamentals of Çukurova Yaşar Kemal Literature

Barry Charles Tharaud focuses on Yaşar Kemal's five early novels İnce Memed 1, Ortadirek, Yer Demir Gök Bakır, Ölmez Otu, İnce Memed 2. According to Tharaud, these five novels, whose ideation phase started in the second half of the 1940s and whose publication lasted from the first half of the 1950s to the end of the 1960s, have a literary richness that can compete with the epics of Homer, to whom Yaşar Kemal had a great affinity and with which he was compared from time to time. constitutes. Tharaud examines the philosophy, literary techniques, and influences from both Eastern and Western traditions behind Yaşar Kemal's works in a systematic and in-depth manner. “Yaşar Kemal's country has always been and continues to be a crossroads of civilizations, and Yaşar Kemal benefits from this cultural treasure both concretely and symbolically in his novels, stories, interviews and ethnographic writings, which constitute more than forty volumes. These local cultural facts alone make us interested in a writer who is filled from head to toe with his own personal space, but when we combine the riches of such a cultural background with the symbolic depth of insight that is the source of a great writer of world literature, then his works – to use today's overused terminology – becomes truly global. Yaşar Kemal's works are filled with existential questions that humanity constantly faces—questions about what it means to be human that ultimately push us to engage in struggles that cannot be won but must be fought. Yaşar Kemal makes us aware of our human resources, such as human imagination and the language that expresses it, which are our greatest resources.”

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 480

Size: 14x21

First Printing Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Media Type: Paperback