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Istanbul Boy: Boyle Gelmis Boyle Gitmez (That's How It Was But Not How It's Going to Be) the Autobiography of Aziz Nesin
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250 pages
Published
January 1st 1977
by University of Texas Press
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A series of vignettes under titles like "meat," or "tabby cat" that describe little moments of what it was like to grow up under the surreal, utopia-creating world of Ataturk's new Turkey. Not being able to read from one day to the next (after Ataturk changed the alphabet, and then it changed again later), the destruction of social markers of recognition (the whole culture of the fez that marked not only religion but class status), the increasingly pervasive role of the military in every day lif
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Chú nhóc ở thành Istanbul là một cuốn tự truyện của Aziz Nesin. Nó chẳng có gì gọi là cốt truyện cả. Chỉ là những mẩu kí ức tuổi thơ của tác giả, ngắn, dễ đọc, cứ gọi là man mác man mác. Những cái tên Thổ Nhĩ Kì tôi chẳng thể nào nhớ hết. Và họ thì có một nền văn hóa lạ lẫm cũng như một quá khứ cơ cực.
Aziz Nesin nổi tiếng với những cuốn truyện mắc cười. Chú nhóc ở thành Istanbul thì lại chẳng có gì vui vẻ để mà cười. Đâu đó vài ba trang có những cảm xúc hào hứng, yêu đời nhỏ nhoi, đâu đó cũng c ...more
Aziz Nesin nổi tiếng với những cuốn truyện mắc cười. Chú nhóc ở thành Istanbul thì lại chẳng có gì vui vẻ để mà cười. Đâu đó vài ba trang có những cảm xúc hào hứng, yêu đời nhỏ nhoi, đâu đó cũng c ...more
Love it! Humorous & light-hearted but not at all superficial. I love anything written by Aziz Nesin.
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Aziz Nesin was a Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books.
Nesin was born in 1915 on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands of Istanbul, in the days of the Ottoman Empire. After serving as a career officer for several years, he became the editor of a series of satirical periodicals with a socialist slant. He was jailed several times and placed under surveillance by the National Security ...more
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Nesin was born in 1915 on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands of Istanbul, in the days of the Ottoman Empire. After serving as a career officer for several years, he became the editor of a series of satirical periodicals with a socialist slant. He was jailed several times and placed under surveillance by the National Security ...more
