Yaşar Kemal or The Return of Dionysus - Hardcover

“Raymond Williams is right when he says that Hardy's narrative home is not Wessex but the “border” between change and tradition. His heroes struggle and lose on the edge of changing rural life. Yaşar Kemal's Çukurova is also a border-space, a battlefield of border relations, and its main characters are destined to lose. But none of them put forward a set of values. No one in their right mind can assume that his narratives inculcate values through the ancients, the clumsy peasants, the sad nomads, the still-forming proto-proletarians. In my opinion, the positions of Hardy, Faulkner and Yaşar Kemal within literary modernity are distinctively symptomatic, and their works also have a feedback function for the narratives of modernity. However, in Faulkner and Hardy, the context of feedback is values, and therefore culture, and in Yaşar Kemal, it is history through power relations.” … “Perhaps Yasar Kemal is primordial; a first that directly produces the genetic unconscious.” This book, which maps Yaşar Kemal's place in literary modernity, is probably a first; Rightly or wrongly, it is breaking the mold...

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 96

Size: 14x20

First Printing Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Media Type: Hardcover