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İletişim Yayınları, 39th Edition |
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Author(s) | Oğuz Atay |
Country | Turkey |
Language | Turkish |
Genre(s) | Stream of Consciousness |
Publisher | İletişim Yayınları (İstanbul) |
Publication date | 1972 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 724pp |
ISBN | 975-470-011-7 |
OCLC Number | 54857185 |
Tutunamayanlar (in Eng. Erectus Disconnectus) is the first novel of Oguz Atay, one of the most prominent Turkish authors. It was written in 1970-71 and published in 1972. Although it was never reprinted in his lifetime and was controversial among critics, it has become a best-seller since a new edition came out in 1984. It has been described as “probably the most eminent novel of twentieth-century Turkish literature”[1]. This reference is due to a UNESCO survey, which goes on: “it poses an earnest challenge to even the most skilled translator with its kaleidoscope of colloquialisms and sheer size.” No translation has yet appeared in any language. It teases the well-established norms of the Turkish bourgeois world by a style which only "the disconnected" could empathize with.