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The Literature of the Turks
Excerpt from The Literature of the Turks: A Turkish Chrestomathy With Translations in English, Biographical and Grammatical Notes, and Facsimiles of Ms. Letters and Documents Turkish dominions are about four times as large as France, and the Turkish language is spoken not only in them, but it is the Court language of Persia and Egypt, and is more or less used from the Danube to the Nile, and from Constantinople to the confines of China. It is the language of millions of Mussulmans who hold some of the most important strategic positions in the world, which, if occupied by a more aggressive power, might threaten the liberty of the world. Friendly intercourse between Turks and Englishmen, and a...
The Time Regulation Institute
'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the late afternoon call to prayer - my aunt sprang briskly back to life' In this fictional memoir of Hayri Irdal - troublesome boy, workshy man and feckless husband - life is examined in all its double-crossing, chaotic, disastrous glory. From his youth, dismantling timepieces while his family fell apart, to his later years at the scandal-hit Time Regulation Institute, Hayri's absurdist misadventures play out as a brilliant allegory of the collision between East and West, tradition and modernity.
Contemporary Turkish Short Fiction
Aside from the work of a few Turkish writers who have become well known in the West, very little Turkish literature has been translated into English. This two-volume anthology, the largest compilation to date of contemporary Turkish short stories in English translation, aims to fill this gap and introduce an international audience to the depth and range of recent Turkish short fiction. Volume 2 continues with 44 stories by 30 writers.
Aeolian Visions/versions
A collection of over 70 literary works, including poetry, short fiction, essays and author interviews translated from Turkish into English. It reflects the crosscurrents of modern and contemporary Turkish poetry and literature, and includes many fresh, exciting and experimental works, resulting from innovative collaborations between translators and authors and the translators themselves.
Tradition,Tension and Translation in Turkey
The articles in this volume examine historical, cultural, literary and political facets of translation in Turkey, a society in tortuous transformation since the 19th century from empire to nation-state. Some draw attention to tradition in Ottoman practices and agents of translation and interpreting, while others explore the republican period, starting in 1923, with the revolutionary change in script from Arabic to Roman coming in 1928, making a powerful impact on publication and translation practices. Areas covered include the German Jewish academic involvement in translation, traditional and current practices of translating from Kurdish into Turkish, censorship of translated literature, intralingual translations from Ottoman into modern Turkish, pseudotranslation, ideological manipulation and resistance in translation, imitativeness vs. originality and metonymics of literary reviewing.
Waiting for the Fear
Short stories about people on the margins, from story peddlers to beggars, by one of Turkey's most innovative fiction writers, now in a new English translation. Adored in Turkey for his post-modern fiction and regarded internationally as one of Turkey’s greatest writers, Oğuz Atay remains largely untranslated into English. First published in 1975, Waiting for the Fear is Atay's only collection of short stories, a book that is routinely praised in Turkey, by, among others, the Nobel Prizewinner Orhan Pamuk, for having transformed the art of short fiction. The eight stories that the book contains, all of them focused on characters living on the margins of society, are dramatic and even trag...
