Poetry
Yanyana
Not translated into English
Melih Cevdet Anday · 1956
Synopsis
A 1956 collection which, according to turkedebiyati.org, belongs to the period when the author turns to a poetry of struggle, defending social and human values. The Ministry of Culture in Ankara, citing the critic Ahmet Oktay, places it at the end of a period called “Garip and socialist”, from 1941 to 1960, made up of bewildering emotions and confidence in the joy of living. The poems are not described one by one.
Context
The Turkish Ministry of Culture notes that a book of the same title, dated 1964, was seized under article 142 and then returned, without saying whether it is the same work. The author had broken with his two comrades of the Garip movement over the place of emotion, thought having, in his view, to shape feeling. After 1960, he would turn to a poetry nourished by myths, which links the ancient Greek culture of Anatolia to contemporary history, according to turkedebiyati.org.
Who it is for
Poems in Turkish, with a militant tone, for those who read the language; no French translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
A collection seized as objectionable, whose author was acquitted, according to turkedebiyati.org.
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