Sait Faik
Sait Faik Abasıyanık (born November 18, 1906 in Adapazarı , † May 11, 1954 in İstanbul ) was a Turkish writer . He is considered to be the pioneer and founder of the modern Turkish short story .
Life
Sait Faik came from a wealthy family. His father was the merchant and temporary mayor (1922) Mehmed Faik Bey. His mother was Makbûle Hanım and came from a respected family with large estates. Sait Faik attended elementary school in Adapazarı and middle school for two years. When the Greek troops took the city during the Greco-Turkish War , the family fled to Düzce , then Bolu, and after the war settled in Istanbul, where Sait Faik attended high school. He was expelled from school because of a prank and finished high school in a boarding school in Bursa in 1928. By 1930 he studied literature and teaching in Istanbul. From 1931 to 1935 he lived in France and studied literature in Grenoble for two years .
At the behest of his father, he returned to Istanbul so that he could pursue a regular job. First he tried his hand at teaching Turkish at an Armenian orphan school, then as a merchant in a shop his father had opened for him, and finally as a court reporter. After his father's death in 1939, he lived on his inheritance.
From 1943 he worked as a freelance writer. Sait Faik remained unmarried and died in 1954 of cirrhosis of the liver as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
Literary work
Sait Faik wrote two novels and a variety of short stories. He is considered the pioneer and founder of the modern Turkish short story, who, according to Mahmut Makal, introduced new topics and a new narrative style.
Sait Faik lived in an environment that rejected his way of life and viewed him as an aylak (idler). He says he has spent most of his life going fishing, sitting in a coffee shop, running around, drinking alcohol and writing stories.
Sait Faik was an eccentric. Orhan Kemal described him as very direct and argumentative. Sait Faik struggled with women and suffered from loneliness. He did not withdraw completely, but kept looking for closeness. But even in the crowd, Sait Faik was lonely. His stories arise as if under duress. Logically , he writes in the story Haritada bir Nokta : "If I didn't write, I would go crazy."
His stories are set in Istanbul or the islands in the region. The story is based on subjective observations that often reveal surprising aspects to an event. In the story "Kafa ve Şişe" (in: Alemdağda var bir Yılan) he describes his power of observation by stabbing a knife:
- "I don't look at the knife, my eyes stay on the eyebrows of the person who pulls the knife."
They are observations of everyday situations mixed with fantasy and memories. The plot or event of a story fades into the background or does not take place at all. Sait Faik turns any face into a story, for example in "Birahanedeki Adam" (in: Lüzumsuz Adam).
His stories are about the urban life of fishermen, sailors, bar-goers, passengers of a steamship, street sweepers, innkeepers, postmen, Armenians, Jews and street musicians of İstanbul.
style
Sait Faik's language is unaffected Istanbul Turkish with lots of slang elements. Alangu describes these as "peripheral district dialects". Various authors accuse Sait Faik of a certain carelessness ( savrukluk ) and indiscipline in dealing with the language. His style fluctuates between realistic description and impressionistic objections. His literary approach of writing sketchily and focusing on details at the same time influenced many young writers as a result.
Honors and afterlife
In 1953 the American Mark Twain Society elected him a member. In 1955 his mother donated the annual Sait Faik literary prize . His house on the İstanbul island of Burgaz has been a museum since 1964 .
Works
In 1936 Sait Faik published his first book of short stories Semaver ("The Samovar"). Dozen others followed, such as Lüzumsuz adam (1948; “The useless man”), Kumpanya (1951; “The company”) and Alemdağda var bir yilan (1953; “In Alemdağ there is a snake”).
His experimental novel Bir takım insanlar (1952; “A group of people”) fell victim to Turkish censorship because he dealt intensively with class differences.
His short stories and reports have appeared among others. a. also in the well-known literary magazine Varlık ("Existence").
literature
Work editions
- A barge called Life. Roman , translated by Monika Carbe and Enis Gülegen, Unionsverlag , Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-293-20078-8 (Turkish: "Medar-i-Maiset Motoru")
- A point on the map. Narratives . Dagyeli-Verlag , Frankfurt / M. 1991, ISBN 3-89329-118-0 (Turkish: "Haritada bir nokta")
- The samovar. Stories , translated by Monika Carbe and Enis Gülegen, DIPA, Frankfurt am Main, 1993, ISBN 3-7638-0365-3 (Turkish: "Semaver")
- Looking for missing people. Novel and three stories , translated by Monika Carbe and Enis Gülegen, DIPA, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-7638-0199-5 (Turkish: "Kayıp Aranıyor")
- Stories from Istanbul , translated and with an afterword by Gerhard Meier, Manesse Verlag, Zurich 2012. ISBN 978-3-7175-2288-1 .
Secondary literature
- Şükran Kurdakul: Şairler ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü. Istanbul 1971
- Mahmut Alptekin: Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Bir Öykü Ustası. Istanbul 1976
- Tahir Alangu: Cumhuriyetten Sonra Hikaye ve Roman Önculer 1930-1950, Vol. 2, Istanbul 1965
- Seyit Kemal Karaalioğlu: Edebiyetımızda Şair ve Yazarlar. Istanbul 1976
- Mustafa Kutlu: Sait Faik Hikaye Dünyası. Istanbul 1968
- Karl-Markus Gauß , Everyday Life in the World. Two years and many more. Vienna 2015. pp. 111–114.
Web links
Sait Faik - Sources, texts, works, translations, media on Wikilivres (also known as Bibliowiki )
- Literature by and about Sait Faik in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Sait Faik Abasiyanik at perlentaucher.de
- Translation of the short story Samovar by Hakan Özkan
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mahmut Alptekin: Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Bir Öykü Ustası. Istanbul 1976, p. 255
- ↑ a b Tahir Alangu: Cumhuriyetten Sonra Hikaye ve Roman Önculer 1930-1950, Vol. 2, Istanbul 1965, p. 118
- ↑ Seyit Kemal Karaalioğlu: Edebiyetımızda Sair ve Yazarlar. Istanbul 1976, p. 140
- ↑ Mahmut Alptekin: Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Bir Öykü Ustası. Istanbul 1976, p. 200
- ↑ Mahmut Alptekin: Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Bir Öykü Ustası. Istanbul 1976, p. 23
- ↑ Paris? That's just something for high society in FAZ from January 10, 2013, page 26
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faik, Sait |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Faik, Sait Abasıyanık |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adapazarı |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1954 |
| Place of death | Istanbul |