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Azade Seyhan’s Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context , second in the MLA series World Literatures Reimagined, offers a much-needed guide to the vast, underexplored territory of modern Turkish literature. Seyhan situates the Turkish novel in relation to such influences as the poetic and oral traditions of Ottoman Islamic culture, the early Turkish Republic
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, Orhan Pamuk is Turkey’s preeminent novelist and an internationally recognized figure of letters. Influenced by both Turkish and European literature, his works interrogate problems of modernity and of East and West in the Turkish context and incorporate the Ottoman legacy linguistically and thematically. The stylistic and thematic aspects of his
Poetry Turkish Literature
“Holbrook’s precise and competent poetic translation lets readers discover and enjoy classical Turkish literature and Islamic mysticism.” The International Fiction Review
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