Kemal, Yasar
(b. 1922), Turkish novelist, journalist, short-story writer. One of Turkey's most prominent writers, Yasar Kemal draws his ideas from Turkish folklore, cultural traditions, and eve...
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Yashar Kemal (born 1922) was the most successful and most widely known of modern Turkish novelists. His works, which also include short stories and essays, are local in color and infused with the spir...
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Critical Essay by TalÂt Sait Halman
In the 1950s Turkish fiction moved out of the centers of urban culture into rural Anatolia, giving rise to an impressive output which is often referred to a...
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Critical Essay by Peter Prince
A sure sense of setting is certainly one of the strengths of the Turkish writer Yashar Kemal. At all times in his funny and tragic story of a peasant who is raised up a...
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Critical Essay by Paul Theroux
[There is a native witness of Turkey] who, in the half-dozen books of his that have been translated, has depicted his country with a close attention to detail and yet w...
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Critical Essay by Talat Sait Halman
The Undying Grass is Kemal's eighth book of fiction to become available in English translation…. It is the third and last volume of his trilogy, whic...
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Critical Essay by Larry Rohter
No one knows the world of the Turkish peasant better than Yashar Kemal. In a half dozen novels and collections of short stories, he has been remarkably successful in ma...
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Critical Essay by Katha Pollitt
Yashar Kemal's novels, set in the backward villages of his native Taurus Mountains, have an abundance of … exotic verisimilitude. Perhaps there are other...
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Critical Essay by Talat Sait Halman
Kușlar da Gitti (The Birds Too Are Gone) stands in contrast to the epic sweep of the huge novels for which … [Kemal] has gained his international rep...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Thwaite
[The setting of Kemal's "Iron Earth, Copper Sky"] is the southern central part of his country, Antalya, in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Reynolds
The translation of Yashar Kemal's Anatolian Tales is in perfect keeping with one's stereotype idea of Eastern languages; the English in these three lo...
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Critical Essay by Talat Sait Halman
Critics have compared Yashar Kemal with Tolstoy, Hardy, Steinbeck, Silone, Faulkner, and some other modern novelists, but he ultimately aspires to capture the spir...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth Graham
Here [in Anatolian Tales] are seven miniature folk-epics from a brutal and elemental society—a sun-smitten plain in Turkey—that offers the perfect milie...
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Critical Essay by Duncan Fallowell
Yashar Kemal writes of timeless things, the gin of the soul, so to speak, such as the plight of nomads in Central Turkey Today, or yesterday, or at any time you car...
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Critical Essay by John Mellors
The Legend of the Thousand Bulls recounts the 20th-century vicissitudes of a nomad tribe in Turkey, 'remnants from the age of the ancient Hittites'. These...
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Critical Essay by David Wilson
Yashar Kemal's The Legend of the Thousand Bulls is an epic prose poem about Turcoman nomads and their efforts, against all the odds and local hostility, to find ...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
In spite of the propagandistic bones that jut out unhandsomely here and there, [The Lords of Akchasaz: Murder in the Ironsmiths Market], Kemal's latest evocati...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
Kemal writes compellingly and brutally of the death of the old ways on the Chukurova Plain of Turkey in this powerful novel ["The Lords of Akchasaz: Part I,...
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Critical Essay by A. G. Mojtabai
"Bird and tree conjoin in us," wrote René Char in "Recherche de la Base et du Sommet." The urge to take flight and the need to root...
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Critical Essay by Peter Lewis
To say that The Saga of a Seagull is about an eleven-year-old boy who adopts as a pet a young seagull with a broken wing might suggest some embarrassing piece of sentime...
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Kemal, Yasar
Yashar Kemal
Critical Essay by TalÂt Sait Halman
