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With all the wit and brilliance of Chekhov, a distinctive collection of lyrical stories from Sait Faik Abas?yan?k, "Turkey's greatest short story writer" (The Guardian) Sait Faik Abas?yan?k'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 Abas?yan?k'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.

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Title A Useless Man: Selected Stories
Author Sait Faik Abasiyanik; Maureen Freely (Translator); Alexander Dawe (Translator)
Binding Paperback
Edition Paperback
Pages 240
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Archipelago Books
Date 2014-12-02
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780914671077 / 0914671073
Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
Dimensions 7.4 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (18.80 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Cultural Region: Turkey
Library of Congress subjects Sait Faik
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014030520
Dewey Decimal Code 894.353

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Sait Faik's career marked a pivotal moment in Turkish culture in the 1930s and 40s when the secular, post-Ottoman sensibility placed new demands on the writing of literature. Born in Adapazari in 1906, Sait Faik is regarded by Turkish critics and readers as their finest short story writer - a Turkish Chekhov.
Alex Dawe has translated Tanpinar's The Time Regulation Institute, for which he won a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. Maureen Freely is a writer, translator, senior lecturer at Warwick University, and the former president of English PEN. The translator of books by Orhan Pamuk and Fethiye Cetin, she actively champions free expression. She has been a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, and The Sunday Times for two decades. Her translation of Sevgi Soysal's Dawn is forthcoming from Archipelago.

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Brooklyn. 2014. Archipelago Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 9780914671077. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe. 240 pages. paperback. Cover design by David Bullen. Cover art by Abidin Dino. keywords: Literature Translated Turkey . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Sait Faik Abas?yan?k was born in Adapazar? in 1906 and died in Istanbul in 1954. In twelve books of short stories, two novels, and a book of poetry, Sait Faik's prose celebrates the natural world and renders in vivid detail the struggles of his characters: ancient coffeehouse proprietors and priests, dream-addled fishermen and poets of the Princes' Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. Many stories are loosely autobiographically and deal with Sait Faik's frustration with social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the slow yet steady ethnic cleansing of his city. Seemingly in keeping with the restrictions that the new Republic placed on language… Read More

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