Tahir Sami Bey'in Özel Hayatı

Mustafa Kutlu, one of the important names of Turkish storytelling, has been regularly publishing a story book every year since 2000. These books are respectively; Tall Story, My Futile Life, Blue Bird, Before the Flood, Windy Sunday, Chef, Letter from Violet, Opening the Doors and Restless Legs...

The book of 2009 was Tahir Sami Bey's Private Life, which met with the readers in the first week of August.

Tahir Sami Bey's Private Life is essentially a work that aims to give the private framework of a book lover today. What gives the work a literary character stems from both its modern fiction and its narrative in long story format. Its basic quality should be sought in the fact that it is a passion story. The story of an adventure that, like most passions, leaves its owner alone and leads towards a dramatic end...

The author traces the foundations of Tahir Sami Bey's personality back three generations. His actual job and the place where he works arouses curiosity in the reader with its almost mysterious structure. We can especially look for the treatment and analysis of private life in this book. But here, instead of a psychological analysis and a provocative explanation, the author; It merely points out the essence of the issue while adhering to the values of our society.

As a character, Tahir Sami Bey is almost a single-hero story that highlights the individual, compared to the socially dominant works that Mustafa Kutlu has produced so far. The author builds a new character from all the Tahir Sami Beys who have probably met, talked to, and sat around with many of them in his forty years of press life.

Tahir Sami Bey's Private Life is the story of a wasted life, in a sense, of a man who devoted himself to books, magazines and knowledge without any reward, but did not receive any acceptance or compliment from the society. This story may enable us to approach Tahir Sami Bey, who still walks among us, with more compassion and respect.