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- Abasiyanik, Sait Faik
- ISBN
- 9780914671077
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Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
0914671073
ISBN-13
9780914671077
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201615281
Product Key Features
Book Title
Useless Man : Selected Stories
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.5 Oz
Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-030520
Reviews
Brimming with life and intelligence.... Sait Faik is a masterful storyteller and a passionate flaneur. He has the keenest eye and the softest heart for quirkiness, loneliness and love. It feels like nothing can surprise him and yet his writing is utterly riveting and full of surprises. -- Elif Shafak Reading these stories by Sait Faik feels like finding the secret doors inside of poems. Little moments-here one about milk, there one about death-open out into corridors of narrative, leading to effects and endings that are consistently both gentle and cutting, simultaneously honest and surprising. A distinctive, humane voice worthy of our serious attention. -- Rivka Galchen Turkey's greatest short-story writer. -- The Guardian These stories unfold like secrets or hallowed gossip passed between friends and neighbors. Each one's telling--intimate and mysterious, earthy and luminous--is propelled universal by a striking glimpse of the human heart. Set in post-Ottoman Istanbul, Sait Faik's characters span a rich cultural array, including Turkish fishmen, Greek Orthodox priests, factory girls, thieves, simit sellers and all manner of lovers. Though these stories take us to a specific place and time, Sait Faik's unflinching eye lands us precisely in our own backyard. -- Anne Germanacos "Sait Faik's best stories combine...innocence with a profound intelligence, showing that people also bring sadness, disappointment, rivalry, frustration and confusion. He should certainly be better known among English readers and this volume is a good place to start... His work is full of humanistic portrayals of laborers, fishermen, children, tradesmen, the unemployed, the poor...one of the best loved writers in Turkey." -- William Armstrong , Hürriyet Daily News "Part of the charm of Sait Faik Abasiyanik, who wrote almost 200 short stories in two decades before his premature death in 1954, is the way he floated above the fray of his turbulent times. This new selection of tales is welcome.... His stories bear multiple readings... they are elliptical, fragmentary, defined mostly by what is left unsaid; they never outstay their welcome.... 'The Silk Handkerchief' [is] a poignant masterpiece of concision." -- The Times Literary Supplement "It's heartbreaking and tender.... Masterly storytelling, beautifully translated." -- The Irish Times "[S]uperbly translated. . . evocative and nostalgic without ever being saccharine. . . Like quality chocolates, each story is worth pausing over to savor the nuances, wondering about the hints and where they lead. . . Elliptical and unexpected, sometimes lyrical, sometimes earthy, using elementary language and a stark, Chekhovian simplicity, these loving tributes to the unnoticed loners on the margins of life reveal the world through Sait Faik's eyes in all its brutality and loneliness and beauty." --Nick DiMartino, University Book Store, in Shelf Awareness, "These stories unfold like secrets or hallowed gossip passed between friends and neighbors. Each one's telling--intimate and mysterious, earthy and luminous--is propelled universal by a striking glimpse of the human heart. Set in post-Ottoman Istanbul, Sait Faik's characters span a rich cultural and linguistic array, including Turkish fisherman (and their fish), Greek Orthodox priests, factory girls, thieves, simit sellers and all manner of lovers. The stories take us to a specific place and time, but because of Sait Faik's unflinching eye, we land precisely in our own backyard." -- Anne Germanacos, author of In the Time of the Girls and Tribute "Reading these stories by Sait Faik feels like finding the secret doors inside of poems. Little moments-here one about milk, there one about death-open out into corridors of narrative, leading to effects and endings that are consistently both gentle and cutting, simultaneously honest and surprising. A distinctive, humane voice worthy of our serious attention." -- Rivka Galchen, "Reading these stories by Sait Faik feels like finding the secret doors inside of poems. Little moments-here one about milk, there one about death-open out into corridors of narrative, leading to effects and endings that are consistently both gentle and cutting, simultaneously honest and surprising. A distinctive, humane voice worthy of our serious attention." -- Rivka Galchen, "[S]uperbly translated. . . evocative and nostalgic without ever being saccharine. . . Like quality chocolates, each story is worth pausing over to savor the nuances, wondering about the hints and where they lead. . . Elliptical and unexpected, sometimes lyrical, sometimes earthy, using elementary language and a stark, Chekhovian simplicity, these loving tributes to the unnoticed loners on the margins of life reveal the world through Sait Faik's eyes in all its brutality and loneliness and beauty." --Nick DiMartino, University Book Store, in Shelf Awareness "[S]ince I have come into possession of Abasiyanik's Stories , I have found myself pursuing loosely structured goals in the region just as an excuse to hop on a train and dive into another succinct tale... Like Robert Walser's walking stories, these meditations on natural beauty and village life often dance around an ugly truth. Lost innocence, unrequited love, misanthropy. Turn down the wrong street and there they are, crystallized in the form of vegetables left out to dry in the cornice of a building. And the more beguiling and bucolic the tales start out, the less prepared we are when, in the words of translators Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe, 'he pulls the carpet out from underneath our feet... [L]est we indulge in false nostalgia for an innocence that we may never have had to lose in the first place, we are reminded of the man who could not and would not go into town. 'I can imagine it now, all those little twenty-five watt bulbs glowing, and all the flies.' Perhaps this is reason enough not to go into town. But if you must, make sure to bring along Abasiyanik's Selected Stories for the trip." -- Nomadic Press "These stories unfold like secrets or hallowed gossip passed between friends and neighbors. Each one's telling--intimate and mysterious, earthy and luminous--is propelled universal by a striking glimpse of the human heart. Set in post-Ottoman Istanbul, Sait Faik's characters span a rich cultural and linguistic array, including Turkish fisherman (and their fish), Greek Orthodox priests, factory girls, thieves, simit sellers and all manner of lovers. The stories take us to a specific place and time, but because of Sait Faik's unflinching eye, we land precisely in our own backyard." -- Anne Germanacos, author of In the Time of the Girls and Tribute "Reading these stories by Sait Faik feels like finding the secret doors inside of poems. Little moments-here one about milk, there one about death-open out into corridors of narrative, leading to effects and endings that are consistently both gentle and cutting, simultaneously honest and surprising. A distinctive, humane voice worthy of our serious attention." -- Rivka Galchen
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Decimal
894/.3533
Synopsis
Sait Faik Abasiyanik was born in Adapazari in 1906 and died of cirrhosis in Istanbul in 1954. He wrote twelve books of short stories, two novels, and a book of poetry. His stories celebrate the natural world and trace the plight of iconic characters in society: ancient coffeehouse proprietors and priests, dream-addled fishermen adn poets of the Princes' Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. Many stories are loosely autobiographical and deal with Sait Faik's frustration with social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the slow but steady ethnic cleansing of his city. His fluid, limpid surfaces might seem to be in keeping with the restrictions that the architects of the new Republic placed on language and culture, but the truth lies in their dark, subversive undercurrents. Sait Faik donated his estate to the Darusafaka foundation for orphans, and this foundation has since been committed to promoting his work. His former family home on Burgazada was recently restored, and now functions as a museum honoring his life and work. He is still greatly revered: Turkey's most prestigious short story award carries his name and nearly every Turk knows by heart a line or a story by Sait Faik., With all the wit and brilliance of Chekhov, a distinctive collection of lyrical stories from Sait Faik Abasiyanik, "Turkey's greatest short story writer" ( The Guardian ) Sait Faik Abasiyanik's fiction traces the interior lives of strangers in his native Istanbul: ancient coffeehouse proprietors, priests, dream-addled fishermen, poets of the Princes' Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. The stories in A Useless Man are shaped by Sait Faik's political autobiography - his resistance to social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the ethnic cleansing of his city - as he conjures the varied textures of life in Istanbul and its surrounding islands. The calm surface of these stories might seem to signal deference to the new Republic's restrictions on language and culture, but Abasiyanik's prose is crafted deceptively, with dark, subversive undercurrents. "Reading these stories by Sait Faik feels like finding the secret doors inside of poems," Rivka Galchen wrote. Beautifully translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe, A Useless Man is the most comprehensive collection of Sait Faik's stories in English to date., Sait Faik Abasiyanik wrote 12 books of short stories, two novels and a book of poetry. Many stories are loosely autobiographical and deal with his frustration with social convention, the relentless pace of westernisation, and the slow but steady ethnic cleansing of his city. His fluid surfaces might seem to be in keeping with restrictions that the architects of the new Republic placed on language and culture, but the truth lies in their dark undercurrents. He is still greatly revered and this collection brings together some of his greatest works.
LC Classification Number
PL248.S288A2 2014
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