Waiting for the Fear

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. Short stories about people on the margins, from story peddlers to beggars, by one of Turkey's most innovative fiction writers, now in a new English tr anslation. A giant of modern Turkish literature, Ouz Atay remains largely untranslat ed into English. First published in 1975, Waiting for the Fear is Atay's on ly collection of short stories, praised by the Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pam uk for having transformed the art of short fiction. Atay's stories are vivid with life's absurdities and psychologically true t o life, while his characters, oddballs and losers all, are utterly individu al. A brilliant examiner of the inner life, Atay is no less aware of the fl awed social world in which his people struggle to make their way, and he is exceptionally attuned to the strange power storytelling itself can exert o ver fate. In the title story, a nameless young man returns to his home on t he outskirts of an enormous nameless city to discover that he has received a letter in a language he neither knows nor recognizes--after which, step b y step, the inscrutable missive reshapes his world. In "Railroad Storytelle rs: A Dream," a professional story peddler lives in a hut beside a train st ation in a country that is at war--unless it isn't. He can't remember. What do such life and death realities matter, however, so long as there are sto ries to tell Ralph Hubbell's fluent and vigorous English rendering of this key work of world literature is a revelation.

Product Info

ISBN: 1681377969

ISBN-13: 9781681377964

Publisher: NYRB Classics (edition )

Year: 2024

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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