mercredi 7 août 2013

FOLDED CORNER > ‘Life’s Good, Brother’ by Nazım Hikmet

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‘Life’s Good, Brother’ by Nazım Hikmet (translated by Mutlu Konak Blasing) (Persea, 2013, 25TL, pp 191)


“Life’s Good, Brother” is one of the few prose works in Nazım Hikmet’s oeuvre, but it is widely considered to be the crowning achievement of the monumental poet’s late exile years. It is a kind of fictionalized autobiography, with the aged Hikmet looking back in exile, creatively reinterpreting and reshaping the material of his life, mixing, rearranging and compressing episodes from his own experience across time and place. Biography also perhaps accounts for the work’s breathless 190-page urgency, as he was seriously ill while writing it in 1962 and knew that he didn’t have long left to live.......... 


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