Nihavent Hıçkırık - İhsan Raifin's Novel

Nihavent Hıçkırık - İhsan Raifin's Novel Book Description İhsan Raif's name is mentioned in our literary history as "our first female poet to use syllabic meter". İhsan Raif, the student of philosopher and poet Rıza Tevfik, has a special place in our artistic life with the lyrics he wrote and the compositions he composed, in addition to his poems. However, the details of his life story are not as bright as written in the history of literature and music. As the daughter of Köse Raif Pasha, one of the last viziers of the Ottoman Empire, she could not choose her husband herself, despite her Western education and lifestyle. She would set a trap for her first husband, İhsan Raif, and marry him, and then she would not live a happy life, neither in this fifteen-year-long first marriage nor in her other marriages... Demet Altınyeleklioğlu, who last talked about Şükûfe Nihal, one of the symbol names of the women's movement in Turkey, said: In her novel Hıçkırık – I Don't Complain to Anyone, Nihavent tells about İhsan Raif Hanım. It reveals that even though more than a hundred years have passed, the fate of "women" in these lands is still the same. (From the Promotional Bulletin)