Mai and Black-Critical Edition

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

Prepared for publication with notes from the original Ottoman language by Seval Şahin, with an afterword by Orhan Koçak.
Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil's Mai ve Siyah is one of our first novels that opens the doors of the individual's inner world wide and makes one think about that world.
Ahmet Cemil, whose life seems like it will never end, his best friend Hüseyin Nazmi, who always "owns" Ahmet Cemil, two women who are thrown to different places in life, İkbal, Lamia and Halit Ziya, the writers through whom the art and press world of the period is reflected... Mai ve Siyah is a "dark" novel of our literature... In the critical edition of the novel in your hands, the book published in 1898 is based on, including the serial The differences between the copies are shown, thus revealing the literary changes and transformations between the periods. While the illustrations in the 1898 copy are also included in this edition, the opportunities for a deeper, multi-faceted reading are also offered with rich footnotes.
It can be said that this book is the first work in Turkey that speaks on behalf of its generation.

- AHMET HAMDİ TANPINAR -

Paper Type: 2. Paste

Print Number: 1. Edition

First Printing Year : 2018

Number of Pages : 674

Dimensions : 13 x 19, 5