Poetry
Duvar
Not translated into English
Attilâ İlhan · 1948
Synopsis
The author's first collection, divided into parts, including “Gâvurdağları'nda rivayet”, “Hürriyet yürüyor”, “Karanlıkta kaynak yapan adam”, “Harb kaldırımında aşk”, made up of seventeen numbered pieces, and “Şafak vakti dünya”. The poems speak of the Second World War, experienced from afar through the press, the radio and rationing, the desire for freedom, captivity, death and the hope of peace. In the poem “Duvar”, according to Musa Demir, prison walls watch, helpless and ashamed, the torture and execution of a young captive.
Context
The book was published in Istanbul in 1948, at the author's own expense, by Işıl Matbaası, according to the dictionary of names of Turkish literature. Two years earlier, as a schoolboy, he had won second prize in the poetry competition of the Republican People's Party, in which his uncle had entered him without his knowledge; the other two winners were Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı and Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca. Musa Demir reads the collection as a work of social realism, marked by a communist elder; the dictionary notes in it attempts at epic that draw on popular poetry.
Who it is for
A collection of poems in Turkish, with long narrative poems; no French translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
First book by a poet already known for his long poem awarded a prize in 1946, according to turkedebiyati.org.
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