Ağıtlar - Yaşar Kemal

• Lament, which is an effective resistance against death, It is the result of human beings' efforts to make the surprise, fear and disbelief they feel when faced with death bearable. Laments that have been burned for thousands of years show great diversity and richness in Anatolia. Many elegies compiled by Yaşar Kemal from the Çukurova region and the Taurus Mountains come together in Laments.
  
  
  Before our eyes, the emaciated peasant A young man will appear. His name is Kemal Sadık Göğceli, he comes from Hemite village. The mountain does not listen to the slopes, it breaks away from its villages, mountain villages, camps, plains and towns, comes to Adana from time to time, collapses in front of us, lays out laments, folk songs and epics written on crumpled yellow papers. So where did he collect these? He was writing the elegies that Anatolian sisters sang together, he felt this obligation, with his flexible and determined writing. The force was rushing towards the base at that speed, as if its fate and our fate depended on it. It was the strings of words, shouts, and wailing that he put before us. It was as if this child was responsible for the loud laments of the dead, the shot, the oppressed, (...) Çukurova, which was going through great changes with its laborers, workers and workers.
  

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