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A Useless Man: Selected Stories Online ZsEH0 (Ebook pdf) A Useless Man: Selected Stories Online [ZsEH0.ebook] A Useless Man: Selected Stories Pdf Free Sait Faik Abasiyanik ebooks | Download PDF | *ePub | DOC | audiobook Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #693931 in eBooks 2015-02-24 2015-02-24File Name: B00KUQAFRM | File size: 49.Mb Sait Faik Abasiyanik : A Useless Man: Selected Stories before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised A Useless Man: Selected Stories: 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A picture of Turkish life, in storieBy Susan Drees(Being reviewed as Selected Stories of Sait Faik Abasiyanik)I have finished the final story of this collection today and find myself smiling and making notes about the writing on my kindle. The book, author and stories have all grown on me over the course of reading, as I have come to know him a little through his works, his views of his surroundings and his life, the culture which he apparently loved. There was a description I found in the afterword that I feel is especially important for the reader who does not know Turkey and has never encountered Sait Falk before. (Apparently he is somewhat of a folk hero in his own land and is still revered so long after his death.)Though his stories are often opaque, fragmentaryand oddly plotted, they never fail to conjure up amood that lingers in your mind for days. They arefleeting meditations, blurred pictures full of explosivecreativity; intimate portraits, odes to belovedindividuals or avatars...; slices of everyday life, acasual remembrance, a crystallized childhood memory,a veiled and deeply personal confession. [He}..depictedthe lives of lovers, deviants, idlers and the workingclass: fishermen, builders, off-the-wall philosophers,penniless widows, lost souls pocketing dreams in oldcountryside coffeehouses. (loc 2411)Among my favorite stories are several of his later ones, "The Boy in the Tünel", "Kalinikta", and "In the Rain". but there are whole or partial poems that captured me throughout with their sadness, the beauty of a quickly created scene among the islands, the silliness of a dog or the playing of children. Even in those stories, however, there is almost always a background of sadness, some nostalgia for other times, a feeling of loss already experienced or sure to come.I was initially hesitant about these stories but came to see their power as I continued reading. The only thing I would do differently as a publisher is change the afterword to a forword for the benefit of those who are new to Turkish writing and to this author. I think it would give a well deserved hint before beginning the collection.A copy of this book was provided by the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review.I also note that a future edition of this book is being published with a slightly different title, [book:A Useless Man: Selected Stories|24474355].1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. He is a humanist also lover of nature is known for his love of Istanbul and you can easily and and completely ...By Muzeyyen SusarMy most favorable Turkish.story writer. He is very successful in his books describing Istanbul and natives of the city. He is a humanist also lover of nature is known for his love of Istanbul and you can easily and and completely feel this in his books. His joy of life is one of the most notable traits of his character. 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.Sait Faik donated his estate to the Daru?afaka foundation for orphans, and this foundation has since been committed to promoting his work. His former family home on Burgazada was recently restored, and now functions as a museum honoring his life and work. He is still greatly revered: Turkey's most prestigious short story award carries his name and nearly every Turk knows by heart a line or a story by Sait Faik. "Sait Faik’s best stories combine...innocence with a profound intelligence, showing that people also bring sadness, disappointment, rivalry, frustration and confusion. He should certainly be better known among English readers and this volume is a good place to start... His work is full of humanistic portrayals of laborers, fishermen, children, tradesmen, the unemployed, the poor...one of the best loved writers in Turkey." — William Armstrong, Hürriyet Daily News"Part of the charm of Sait Faik Abasiyanik, who wrote almost 200 short stories in two decades before his premature death in 1954, is the way he floated above the fray of his turbulent times. This new selection of tales is welcome.... His stories bear multiple readings... they are elliptical, fragmentary, defined mostly by what is left unsaid; they never outstay their welcome.... 'The Silk Handkerchief' [is] a poignant masterpiece of concision." — The Times Literary Supplement "It's heartbreaking and tender.... Masterly storytelling, beautifully translated." — The Irish Times"[S]uperbly translated. evocative and nostalgic without ever being saccharine. Like quality chocolates, each story is worth pausing over to savor the nuances, wondering about the hints and where they lead. Elliptical and unexpected, sometimes lyrical, sometimes earthy, using elementary language and a stark, Chekhovian simplicity, these loving tributes to the unnoticed loners on the margins of life reveal the world through Sait Faik's eyes in all its brutality and loneliness and beauty." --Nick DiMartino, University Book Store, in Shelf Awareness"This fascinating collection of short stories from Turkey portray a world of the ordinary and mundane but in such a way as to stimulate the reader's imagination and leave them wanting more. Each story is like a snapshot in time and the evocative description and slightly mysterious subject matter leaves behind a sense that we have scratched the surface of a vast and private world that we can only ever experience through reading... these stories inspire, amuse and move in equal measure... this is a privileged glimpse into lives unknown and worlds rarely visited. Wonderful." — Booktrust"Abas?yan?k’s status as a Turkish national treasure is utterly unsurprising. Chekhov-like in his ability to create sweet, poignant moments from the mundane and melancholy, Abas?yan?k is able to fashion even a mother’s death into a comforting embrace... Abas?yan?k’s prose is never heavy-handed, as he expertly invokes the colours, smells and tastes of his native Turkey." — Totally Dublin"These are stories that are not so much unputdownable as unpindownable. Briefer and more open-ended than Chekhov, earthier than Borges and Kafka, less penetrating than Katherine Mansfield and D?H Lawrence – yet as beguiling as all of them... It isn’t always easy to get a handle on these stories, but it is not difficult at all to be lulled and entranced by their strangeness." — The National (UAE) "...beautifully paced and glows with affection for the sights and sounds of working class Istanbul... one of Turkey’s most revered writers... Engrossing and curiously refreshing, Sait Faik opens magical doors to Istanbul as it stood back in the early twentieth century, with its colourful array of prostitutes, barflys and musicians who frequented its coffee and tea houses and drinking dens." — RTÉ Ten (Ireland) "[S]ince I have come into possession of Abasiyanik’s Stories, I have found myself pursuing loosely structured goals in the region just as an excuse to hop on a train and dive into another succinct tale... Like Robert Walser’s walking stories, these meditations on natural beauty and village life often dance around an ugly truth. Lost innocence, unrequited love, misanthropy. Turn down the wrong street and there they are, crystallized in the form of vegetables left out to dry in the cornice of a building. And the more beguiling and bucolic the tales start out, the less prepared we are when, in the words of translators Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe, 'he pulls the carpet out from underneath our feet... [L]est we indulge in false nostalgia for an innocence that we may never have had to lose in the first place, we are reminded of the man who could not and would not go into town. 'I can imagine it now, all those little twenty-five watt bulbs glowing, and all the flies.' Perhaps this is reason enough not to go into town. But if you must, make sure to bring along Abasiyanik’s Selected Stories for the trip." — Nomadic Press "These stories unfold like secrets or hallowed gossip passed between friends and neighbors. Each one’s telling-- intimate and mysterious, earthy and luminous—is propelled universal by a striking glimpse of the human heart. Set in post-Ottoman Istanbul, Sait Faik’s characters span a rich cultural and linguistic array, including Turkish fisherman (and their fish), Greek Orthodox priests, factory girls, thieves, simit sellers and all manner of lovers. The stories take us to a specific place and time, but because of Sait Faik’s unflinching eye, we land precisely in our own backyard." — Anne Germanacos, author of In the Time of the Girls and Tribute"Reading these stories by Sait Faik feels like finding the secret doors inside of poems.
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