One Life is Worth Another

Surprising Articles from Ahmet Altan About Love, Politics and Art!..

This book contains the loves and pains of those who created great works and of ordinary women who experienced deep shocks in their worlds that seem small from afar.


When you read this book, you will find not only the invisible face of the world of art and science, but also the feelings you hide from yourself.


Beethoven loved only one woman very much in his life. He wrote letters to her and composed compositions for her. He didn't tell anyone his name. No one knew the name of the woman he loved.


Juan Ramon Jimenez was in love with his wife Zenobia. His wife fell ill and was on the verge of death. The Nobel Committee announced ahead of time that he had received the Nobel Prize in Literature, just so that Zenobia could find out before she died. Then Zenobia died. Jimenez never wrote a single line again.


The son, Alexander Dumas, had fallen in love with an expensive prostitute. In fact, all of Paris was after this young consumptive woman. That woman only loved Lizst. The only man who left her was Lizst. Son Dumas wrote The Lady of the Camellias after the woman he loved died. He gave her the greatest gift he could give.


Louis Kahn, one of the world's most famous architects, was a selfish and ugly man. When he was found dead in a train station toilet at the age of 74, he left behind three women in love with him. His son wondered why they loved someone like his father and went around those women one by one.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 225

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Everest Publications

Cover Design: Füsun Turcan Elmasoglu
Prepared by: Didem Ünal Biçicioglu

First Print Year: 2015

Number of Pages: 225

Language Turkish