Eski Ahbap

by Reşat Nuri Güntekin

Yaşımı soran olursa kırk deyip geçiyorum amma hemen hemen elliye yanaştım. Bu yaşta adam için karısının ölmesi kadar büyük felaket olmuyor. Daha gençlikte başa gelse insan, yine sarsılır. Ev bark yıkımı kolay şey değil. Amma bir cihetten de bir ümit yeri kalır. Adam belki yeniden bir yuva tutar; sönük ocağa şöyle üç, beş kasım dalı atar. Daha ihtiyarlıkta olursa onun da o kadar zararı yok. Adam, altmışından sonra karıyı neylesin; insan, o vakit keenne vapur bekleyen yolcuya benzer.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1919

About the author

Reşat Nuri Güntekin (Istanbul, 25 November 1889 - London, 13 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter and playwright. His novel, Çalıkuşu ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia; the movie was filmed on this book in 1966, and remade as TV series in 1986. His narrative has a detailed and precise style, with a realistic tone. His other significant novels include Yeşil Gece ("Green Night") and Yaprak Dökümü ("The Fall Of Leaves")

Biography

His father was a major in the army. Reşat Nuri attended primary school in Çanakkale, the Çanakkale Secondary School and the İzmir School of Freres. He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature in 1912. He worked as a teacher and administrator at high schools in Bursa and Istanbul, then as an inspector at the Ministry of National Education (1931). He served as the deputy of Çanakkale between 1933 and 1943 in the Turkish Parliament, the chief inspector at the Ministry of National Education (1947), and a cultural attaché to Paris (1950), when he was also the Turkish representative to UNESCO.

After his retirement, he served at the literary board of the Istanbul Municipal Theatres. He died in London, where he had gone to be treated for his lung cancer. He is buried at the Karacaahmet Cemetery in İstanbul.

Reviews

[Elifce Kitap · Rating 5 out of 5]

Resat Nuri Guntekin'in öyküleri de romanları kadar varmış. Dönemin toplumsal yapısını cok iyi yansitan iki öyküden oluşuyor Eski Ahbap. Kesinlikle tavsiye ediyorum

[Burak Topcu · Rating 5 out of 5]

İki güzel öyküden oluşan son derece sürükleyici pek güzel bir kitap.

[Betül · Rating 2 out of 5]

iki hikayeden oluşuyor. iki hikayede de kadınları şirret erkekleri de masum olarak göstermiş

[afra · Rating 2 out of 5]

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