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Metis Nonfiction
13 x 19.5 cm, 176 pp
ISBN No. 975-342-660-2
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1st Print: March 2008
2nd Print: August 2008
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About the Author
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One of the foremost cultural critics in Turkey, Nurdan Gürbilek is the author of
Vitrinde
Yaşamak (Life in the Shopwindow, 1992), an analysis of the cultural
dynamics of the 1980s in Turkey. Her other publications include Yer Değiştiren Gölge
(Shifting Shadow, 1995) and Ev Ödevi (Homework, 1999), collection of essays
on modern Turkish writers. She is also the author of
Kötü Çocuk Türk (Bad Boy Turk, 2001), an analysis of some of the
significant images and tropes in modern Turkish literature and popular culture.
In her last book Kör Ayna, Kayıp Şark (Orient Lost, 2004) Gürbilek explores
the sexual anxieties accompanying the Ottoman-Turkish literary modernization. Nurdan
Gürbilek also edited, translated and introduced Son Bakışta Aşk (Love at
Last Sight, 1993), a collection of essays in Turkish by Walter Benjamin. She is
currently working on a book on Dostoyevsky’s "underground tragedy" and its counterparts
in modern Turkish literature.
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Other Books from Metis
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Vitrinde Yaşamak (Life in the Shopwindow), 1992
Yer Değiştiren Gölge (Shifting Shadow), 1995
Ev Ödevi (Homework), 1999
Kötü Çocuk
Türk (Bad Boy Turk), 2001
Kör Ayna,
Kayıp Şark (Orient Lost), 2004
(Orient Lost), 2004
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Nurdan Gürbilek
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Language of the Downtrodden
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Mağdurun Dili
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One of the most important literary and cultural critics in Turkey, Nurdan Gürbilek
explores in her recent book that area where literature intersects with ostracization
in the light of remarkable novels by Dostoevsky, Oğuz Atay, Yusuf Atılgan, and Cemil
Meriç. She tries to understand both how literature may shed light on being trodden
down, which is usually regarded through clichés, and how the sense of being ostracized
shapes literature itself. She analyses how that con-flict, which Dostoevsky called
"the tragedy of the underground," that compulsory retreat into the underground made
up both of great dreams and of resentment, affects the author's relationship with
his reader. She discusses the wounded pride in literature, the hubris of the author,
and why the reader insists on seeing a victory in the failure to hold on to life.
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