Rebellion and Gravity

"If the heart were not a restless bird, maybe our lives would last much longer, but we would live less. Then, so many murders would not have been committed, so many novels would not have been written. Even if the patronizing people never cease to be upon us, it is the struggle of a heart that has decided in its own way whose joy it will rejoice and whose sorrow it will make the fuel of its life." It doesn't calm down easily. If what we call "desire" wasn't so rebellious, so free-wheeling, we would probably remain stuck in the molds they cast us in when we were young. We wouldn't overflow, we wouldn't bleed, we wouldn't be living under the shadow of those who think it's their right to decide who our hearts can reach, without questioning the strangeness of this situation. Most of us are going there. A secret order is imposed on our adult bodies about who we can interact with. There is a norm in their minds, a "normal" that we pretend to follow, even if we don't want to be considered abnormal. "

We all change with what we read and go beyond those "norms". In her essays, which are literary texts, Yasemin Çongar writes about Michael Haneke, Jean Genet, Damien Hirst, Lawrence Durell, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie, Alan Turing, John Irving, Will Self, David Hockney, Richard Sennett, Siri Hustvedt, Denis Lehane once again establishes herself in the footsteps of Claire Messud and many other creators.



Number of Pages: 315

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Everest Publications

First Printing Year: 2013

Number of Pages: 315

Language Turkish