7/6/2023 0 Comments Tutunamayanlar by Oğuz Atay![]() ![]() The story starts with Turgut Özben, a Turkish engineer. The cheapest at the time of writing is €905.75 (plus postage). In the meantime, copies are very hard to obtain. It very soon went out of print, though Olric Press stated that they hope that eventually a commercial publisher will dare to undertake it. It finally appeared in English in 2017, published by a publisher, Olric Press (Olric is a character imagined by one of the characters in the book) created for this book and published in a very limited edition of 200 copies at £50 each. It was considered untranslatable and then it was translated first into Dutch (in 2011 as Het leven in stukken) and then into German (in 2016 as Die Haltlosen ). ![]() ![]() It influenced, for example, the young Orhan Pamuk. ![]() It was a different story when it was republished in one volume, as it had a considerable success. Not surprisingly, it disappeared without trace. This book was first published in Turkish in two volumes in 1971-72, the publisher, apparently unable to afford to publish it all in one go (the later one volume edition was 724 pages). Home » Turkey » Oğuz Atay » Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected) Oğuz Atay: Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected) ![]()
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