Örümceklerin Yuvalandığı Patika

The first book of the great master of Italian literature, Italo Calvino, published 60 years ago, The Path Where the Spiders Nest, was published in Turkish for the first time. The Path Where the Spiders Nest, an original and almost singular example in Italian literature. , one of those books that you can't put down and read in one sitting." "I read it not like that, but rather like a book that was born anonymously after the end of the Second World War, from the general climate of an age, from a moral tension, and from a literary taste adopted by our generation." This book by Calvino is actually a harbinger of what kind of a clever writer he will become in the future. In the preface he wrote to the new edition of The Path Where the Spiders Nest, published in 1964, which is a simple and impressive text about war, faith, anger, evil, humiliation and disappointment through the eyes of a child named Pin, Calvino makes striking observations: "Here, first of all, The book is intended to reveal itself through its images and words, its flow, its tone, its indifference, its defiance.Already in the choice of the subject, an almost provocative self-confidence is displayed: To fight on two fronts simultaneously; I wanted to challenge those who defend a Resistance that is sanctified and purified from its flaws."

Reacting to easy material such as creating a socialist hero and revolutionary romanticism, Calvino expresses the following: 'So, I also want to tell you that there is a world in which no one is a hero, where no one is a hero. I will write a partisan story where no one is aware of class consciousness. I will tell about the world of 'those at the bottom', the lumpen proletariat! (This was a new concept for me at that time and I thought it was a great discovery. I did not know that it had been the easiest material for narrative in the past and would continue to be so.) And this will be the most positive, most revolutionary of all works! What do we care about a person who is already a hero, a person who is already class conscious? What needs to be explained is the process of getting there! As long as a single individual remains beyond consciousness, our duty will be to deal with him and him alone!' I was thinking like this and started writing with this angry polemic; It distorts the facial features and character traits of people whom I consider my most intimate friends, with whom I share a stone chestnut and the danger of death for months and months, with whom I tremble for their fate, with whom I admire their willingness to risk death without even batting an eyelid, and their lifestyle free from all kinds of selfishness. And I was transforming them into masks with ridiculous flaws, and intensifying the blurry twilights on their stories, "I was imagining them as blurry twilights with my youthful naivety"... Later, I would feel a regret that I would carry inside me for years, because of this...



Number of Pages: 168

Printing Year: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Yayınları

Number of Pages: 168

First Edition Year: 2007

Language: Turkish