Sırça Köşk

Sırça Köşk Book Description “Sabahattin Ali is the first revolutionary-realist storyteller and novelist of Turkish literature. In Turkish literature, there were naturalist and even critical realist storytellers and novelists long before Sabahattin. Especially the effects of French naturalism and realism are seen on these. But the first storyteller and novelist in Turkey of reformist, populist realism, which is the stage of critical realism and socialist reality, is Sabahattin.” (Nâzım Hikmet, 1955) “Sabahattin Ali's stories generally have a structure that can be called classical: Each story deals with a subject; The plot is based on an event; It takes place, it occurs according to a process; The process follows the sequence 'entry-development-knotting-unraveling-'. S. Ali, who developed the tradition of Ömer Seyfettin with these features, differs from Sait Faik. As is known, in S. Faik, impressions and emotions often transcend the event; People's inner life often outweighs their outer life; social realities often remain below personal realities. In S. Ali, the opposite often happens: events, external life, social realities come first; emotions, impressions, inner life, personal realities come next.” (Asım Bezirci, 1973) “When I want to read a story from the old masters at midnight or in the afternoon, I open a book by Sabahattin Ali and read a random story. In my opinion, his works have not lost an inch of their power. Just like Chekhov, his value will be understood better day by day. In one word, it is our greatest contemporary classic.” (Ömer Faruk Toprak, 1973) (From the Promotional Bulletin)