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Jean Paul Sartre and Exıstential Choıce
“Varoluş, özden önce gelir:” Yaptıklarımızla kendimizi yaratırız, her karar verdiğimizde sabit değerleri olmayan bir dünyada yaratıcı da oluruz. Dolayısıyla yaptığımız her hareket ve verdiğimiz her kararda aslında bizim için “ideal insanın” davranışlarını yansıtmış oluruz. Bu nedenle “varoluşçuluk bir hümanizmdir.”
Leonard Cohen Never Left Earth
Thanks for the Dance, the sınger’s posthumously released album, honors hıs legacy as a mystıc and as a man. Written by Spencer Kornhaber for THE ATLANTIC The work unearthed after Leonard Cohen’s death at age 82 in 2016 contemplated the soul, the Holocaust, and hip-hop. “Kanye West Is Not Picasso” went the title of one poem in Cohen’s …
Binnaz Yıldız + Ksenıa Gorshkova (In collaboratıon wıth Dıscours Magazıne and PEN Moscow)
Literature: BİNNAZ DENİZ YILDIZ: ÇIKMAZ SOKAK / BLİND ALLEY / БИННАЗ ДЕНИЗ ЙИЛДЫЗ A hand-full of dreams Caught in a trap On the blind alley of irrelevance. Uncle Yorgi by the end of the road, Attaching things on taverns. Curves under busses and a woman a man… Planting chewed up, Dried mulberry seeds to gardens. Finally …
Sadık İkindi + Ksenıa Gorshkova (In collaboratıon wıth Dıscours Magazıne and PEN Moscow)
Literature: SADIK İKİNDİ OYUN /THE GAME / ИГРА An excerpt from Turkish poet Turgut Uyar’s poem, Kan ve Uyku (Blood and Sleep) A nine card, my kingdom for a nine card! My heart was pounding in my chest like a prisoner trying to bang on his cell door in a hurry to make himself heard to …
September’s wrıtıngs are lıve!
September’s works are now live and can be found below and throughout the postings on the English homepage! As İlkyaz, we work to introduce three young writers every month. We translate these works, which are be made up of a short stories or poems, into English and endeavour to introduce them to readers outside of Turkey. …
Salil Tripathi
For September we reached out to Salil Tripathi, a well known and writer and journalist. He prepared a reading list for young writers, here we go! My first language, or mother tongue, is Gujarati, spoken widely in western India. I read many books in Gujarati as a child, including translations of novels and poetry from …
