Gundi-Shapur Academy

In Pursuit of the Literary Father Book Description

Harold Bloom claims that the history of poetry should be read as the history of the struggles of successor poets to get rid of the influences of their predecessors. Commenting on how successor poets try to cope with the influences of their predecessors with the concept he calls "anxiety of influence", Harold Bloom states that all poets who desire originality have to struggle with their predecessor poets. Ahmet Haşim, one of the few poets who see originality as a way of existence in modern Turkish poetry, has strived throughout his life to remain a unique artist. The psychological factor that gives rise to such an effort is "anxiety of influence". Ahmet Haşim, who turned to Western poets to escape the influence of poets in his own tradition from the first moment he started his poetry adventure, shows in some of his writings that he chose predecessors from another world instead of his predecessors in Turkish poetry, acting with a feeling guided by the "anxiety of influence". Ahmet Haşim, who appropriated the poetic thoughts of Western poets such as Verhaeren, Régnier and Mallarmé, tries to show that he was not influenced by the Turkish poets who came before him. This attitude of his is actually a product of hiding the influences coming from Turkish poetry.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 144

Size: 13.5 x 21.5

First Print Year: 2021

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish