A useless man
Subtitle: selected stories
By: Sait Faik Abasiyanik ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe
Contributors: Freely, Maureen, 1952- translator; Dawe, Alexander, translator
Edition: First Archipelago Books Edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780914671077
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Sait Faik Abasiyanik was born in Adapazari in 1906 and died of cirrhosis in Istanbul in 1954. He wrote twelve books of short stories, two novels, and a book of poetry. His stories celebrate the natural world and trace the plight of iconic characters in society: ancient coffeehouse proprietors and priests, dream-addled fishermen adn poets of the Princes' Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. Many stories are loosely autobiographical and deal with Sait Faik's frustration with social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the slow but steady ethnic cleansing of his city. His fluid, limpid surfaces might seem to be in keeping with the restrictions that the architects of the new Republic placed on language and culture, but the truth lies in their dark, subversive undercurrents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Turkish.
Table of contents: title: The samovar; title: My father's second house; title: The silk handkerchief; title: The bocha; title: Wedding night; title: [... etc.]