6 rows · The Garden of Departed Cats New Directions paperbook original New Directions paperbook: Author: Author: Bilge Karasu. · by Bilge Karasu translated by Aron R. Aji ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 24, An elusive novel (apparently completed in the s) by the Turkish author (–95) allegorizes a narrator’s pursuit of an unattainable loved one. There are two intersecting narratives. This archaic game, the central event of The Garden of the Departed Cats, may prove as fatal as the deadly attraction our narrator feels for the local man who is the Vizier, or Captain, of the home team. Their "romance" (which, though inconclusive, magnetizes our protagonist to accept the Vizier's challenge to play) provides the skeletal structure of this experimental novel/5(3).
Bilge Karasu was born in Istanbul in He was not related to the Carasso/Karasu family who founded the Danone yoghurt company. Göçmüş Kediler Bahçesi (The Garden of Departed Cats) ((story) Gece (Night) (novel) Kılavuz (novel) Ne Kitapsız Ne Kedisiz (essay Narla İncire Gazel (essay) Altı Ay Bir. Bilge Karasu () was born in Istanbul and became the pre-eminent Turkish modernist writer. Besides short stories and novels he was also a well-known translator. A graduate of the philosophy department of the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University, Mr. Karasu worked in the foreign broadcast department of Radio Ankara until a. Other articles where Bilge Karasu is discussed: Turkish literature: Modern Turkish literature: vardı (; Death in Troy), Bilge Karasu created works that display a sophisticated narrative style. Among his novels and novellas are Uzun sürmüş bir günün akşamı (; "The Evening of One Long Day"), Göçmüş kediler bahçesi (; The Garden of Departed Cats), Kısmet büfesi.
Bilge Karasu, The Garden of Departed Cats () Turkish literature: it's more of a thing than I was aware of. I think it's for a variety of reasons that I wasn't more aware of it: Turkey is at least partially a European country, but it feels kind of separate. The people speak a non-Indo-European language that few outsiders learn because--unlike, say, Japan--the country doesn't have much economic impact in the larger world and its pop culture hasn't caught on internationally. by Bilge Karasu. In an ancient Mediterranean city, a traditional archaic game of human chess is staged once every ten years. The players (tourists versus locals) bear weapons and the chess game may prove as potentially lethal as the magnetic attraction our narrator feels for the local man who is the Captain of the home team. Each brief interaction between the men comprises a chapter of The Garden of Departed Cats; interleafed between those chapters are a dozen fables. So says one of the twelve fables included in Bilge Karasu’s unique work, “The Garden of the Departed Cats.”. The sentence comes early on, but the reader will likely find themselves nodding in recognition. From the very start, this is a work of cryptic, mysterious riddles, which leaves it for the reader to pick up the pieces and identify the thematic echoes throughout, accepting that much will remain hidden.
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