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Karşılıksız Aşk - Kovalamak ve Kovalanmak Üzerine

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Şehirde bekârlık nasıl bir şeydir? Şehir bize nasıl aşklar vaat eder? Birbirimize gösterdiğimiz ilgi hangi noktadan sonra rahatsız edici olmaya başlar? “Normal” aşk ile “patolojik” fanteziler arasındaki çizgiyi nasıl çekmeli? Günümüz tacizcileri neden internet, cep telefonu gibi araçlara bu kadar meraklılar?Londralı bekâr romantik edebiyat okutmanı yazarımızın başından garip bir aşk hikâyesi geçer. Bir konferansta tanıştığı edebiyat öğrencisine biraz ilgi gösterir ve e-mail adresini verir; daha sonra kızın, dozajı giderek artan ilgisine, cep mesajı ve e-mail yağmuruna, gittikçe saplantı haline dönüşen aşkına maruz kalır. Kız avını sinsice takip eden tacizkâr bir âşığa, erkekse bir kurbana dönüşür. Zamanla tacizci, kurbanını bir işbirlikçiye, yeni yeni saplantıları, hatta paranoyaları olan birine dönüştürür.Karşılıksız aşk ile tacizkâr aşk arasında belli belirsiz bir sınır vardır, birinden ötekine her an geçilebilir. O halde aşkta “mesafe” kavramı çok önemlidir. Yazarımız, Dante ile Beatrice’in aşkından hareketle bu kavramı inceliyor ve bir âşığın en ateşli özlemlerin ortasında kıvranırken bile aşkının farklılığını ve gizemini nasıl anlamlandıracağına dair yorumlarda bulunuyor. Daha sonra bizi Stendhal’den Zweig’a, Goethe’den Poe’ya, Shakespeare’den romantik şairlere uzanan bir edebiyat gezisine çıkarıyor.Kaderin bir cilvesi işte, yazarımız bu garip maceradan bir süre sonra kendini rollerin tamamen değiştiği bir aşk hikâyesinin içinde bulur. Spor salonunda karşılaşıp, ayaküstü lafladığı sarışın dilbere karşı gittikçe saplantıya dönüşecek bir aşka kapılır. Şimdi avın peşinde sinsice dolaşma sırası ona gelmiştir.Bu olay, zamane şehirlerindeki bütün bekârların başına gelebilir pekâlâ. Bir gün siz de kendinizi bir tacizci ya da kurban olarak bulabilirsiniz. Önemli olan yaşadığınız şeyle yüzleşmek, onu anlamlandırabilmektir. Karşılıksız Aşk bunun çarpıcı bir örneği.Akıllı ve sempatik bir yazardan, çekinilen, üzerinde pek az konuşulan bir konu hakkında şaşırtıcı ve ışıltılı bir kitap." The TimesAşk ve delilik: Bu son derece sürükleyici ve zarif kitabın konusu bu..."

Times Literary Supplement

122 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 2003

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Profile Image for Samuel.
512 reviews16 followers
February 7, 2017
Perhaps it was rather stalkerish of me to read this, but then he is my tutor and I confess that I couldn't resist.

It begins as a relatively absorbing story of Dart's personal experience with a PhD student in his field (but not at his university) who, over the course of a year, became obsessively infatuated with him. However, when he admitted that he didn't feel quite the same way, she became bitterly resentful of him, accusing him of leading her on and deliberately hurting her feelings. A string of persistent and aggressive texts and emails followed as Lucy attempted to fill Dart with guilt and turn his colleagues against him. However, this strand of the book is then just abruptly abandoned, left hanging without a real end, and instead Greg takes us on some academic diversions into the subjects of stalking and unrequited love as found in literature, from Dante to Stendhal to Poe. There are some lovely wise aphorisms throughout that wouldn't look out of place in a book by Alain de Botton.

So, overall, I'm glad I read it and satisfied that niggling curiosity about this mysterious little book. I shan't criticise it too much though since he is my tutor after all and good grief, what if he's reading this?!

I know for a fact he isn't though, 'cause I'm watching him through his office window...
Profile Image for Jasmine.
668 reviews57 followers
January 6, 2012
So I don't honestly have any idea where I got this book, or in fact why I got this book. it looks very old and the pages are all yellow, and the subtitle is weird... and in fact the goodreads title is slightly incorrect I will fix it when I finish this review if I remember.

This is a book about stalking. and we know that either you've been stalked or you know someone who's been stalked and that stalking is super super creepy. RIGHT? right? this book covers everything from the annoying texting to the actual stalking and it does it through the eyes of someone who has clearly read too many books. It's a bit he did it to her, she did it to me, I did it to this other chick, but it's interesting.

I honestly don't know if it's worth it to go out there and find it, it depends how available it is, but if you happen upon it on a park bench it's worth picking up.
Profile Image for Kaplumbağa Felsefecisi.
468 reviews79 followers
January 14, 2016
Kovalamak ve kovalanmak üzerine alt başlığı ile yayınlanmış bir kitap. Hepimiz için en güzel olanı bizim yaşadığımı aşk; en korkunç olanı ise bizim bitirdiğimiz ilişkidir. Aşkın tamamen kişisel, o iki kişilik asla olmayan yapısıyla incelemiştir yazar. Doğrusu da budur sanki!
Kişiselleştirdiğimiz ilgi, odak noktası, sempati ve duygular bize derin fragmanlar bırakır. Bizde onların seyriyle başka bir şey görmeme noktasına geliriz. Seyirlik olan kendimizizdir aslında, yazar da o seyre kendinden başlayarak başlamış anlatmaya. Yormayan, kolay anlatımı olan bir kitaptı.
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Author 5 books36 followers
January 19, 2022
A sweet little book that's says a lot and says little - both at the same time. It's a story and a history spun around nothing much more than an anecdote. He had a stalker and then he stalked and he learned something about himself in the process of experiencing these things.

Incredibly easy to read. The words flow like velvet. Not, of course, that velvet flows as such, but if water were velvet or velvet were water then they would flow in much the same way that the prose in this book does.

The author is obviously learned. I wonder what else he's written.

Read if you want a sweet little distraction for a few hours.
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440 reviews54 followers
July 24, 2007
The story of the alleged 'stalking' itself was interesting but it goes downhill from there and we're still nowhere half of the book.
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142 reviews
February 8, 2024
"Her şeyi meta ola­rak algılayan sistem, bize “Ortada alınmaya müsait bir şey var­sa, o orada elde edilmek için bulunmaktadır” öğretisini benimsetmiştir. Hepimiz, giderek daha çok egemenliği altına girmek­teyiz bu sahip olma rüyasının. Belki de bu sebepten, günümüz­de karşılıklı aşk yaşayan sevgililer böylesine vefasız ve ayran gönüllü; ve aşklarına karşılık bulamayan insanlar da böylesine kızgın oluyorlar."
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65 reviews
July 10, 2021
I had to power through this one. It’s not exactly a novel but I did enjoy the bits of information and historical facts.
Profile Image for Majla.
41 reviews14 followers
June 18, 2023
“Not the object only, but also the obstacle, helps define the desire.”

Profile Image for Sugandha Garg.
110 reviews10 followers
June 15, 2015
this book hardly has any story about main protagonists, this is more about the type and kinds and all sorts of stalkers.the books that have been written on stalking. well this is the idea i got from reading first 40 odd pages. i so wanted to finish it considering it is a small book but could not.. sigh#sad#fornothavingfinishit.
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114 reviews11 followers
February 7, 2014
DNF at 10%

For me a DNF is like the FU* equavalent to books. If books were obsessed girls they would say "WTF? Why would you DNF me? I dont deserve this!"




Maybe at some time I would try to read this again. Maybe.








Profile Image for Thabs.
107 reviews
August 18, 2023
It reads as a collection of essays pertaining to the topic stated in the book's title sprinkled with a series of the author's personal anecdotes. From an literary standpoint, it was rather thought - provoking. It could have been structured better - less scattered in its references.
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