Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi - Hardcover

Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi - Cloth-bound Book Description "... Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi is a novel that I have read with pleasure many times and which I think is ideal for those who want to make a first start on Ahmet Mithat's novel." -Nüket Esen- Felatun Bey and Rakım Efendi, two different characters, appear in Ottoman Istanbul in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. While Felatun Bey is a snobbish, spoiled and wasteful character who does not know the West and Eastern culture well, Rakım Efendi is a hard-working, traditionalist and thrifty person who blends both Eastern and Western culture in his own way. These two characters find themselves in sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking events throughout the novel. In this novel, Ahmet Mithat writes in an exaggerated way about the changes and contradictions experienced in the Ottoman society at the end of the nineteenth century under the influence of Western-style modernization, through two different characters he fictionalized. (From the Promotional Bulletin)