Hayatın Sınır Çizgileri

by Saki, İnci Katırcı (Translator)

Hayatın Sınır Çizgileri, kısa öykünün ve "acı" İngiliz mizahının parlak isimlerinden Saki'nin tadına varabileceğimiz geniş bir seçki, gerçek bir şölen... "İşte burada bizim kendi kendimizi kandırma yönündeki üstün güçlerimiz devreye giriyor… Sahte ve aptal küçük hayatlarımızı yaşıyor ve gerçekten de makul bir çevrede makul bir hayat sürdüren, kısıtlamalardan azade kadınlar ve adamlar olduğumuza kendi kendimizi ikna edebiliyoruz."

336 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

British writer Hector Hugh Munro under pen name Saki published his witty and sometimes bitter short stories in collections, such as The Chronicles of Clovis (1911).

His sometimes macabre satirized Edwardian society and culture. People consider him a master and often compare him to William Sydney Porter and Dorothy Rothschild Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window," perhaps his most famous, closes with the line, "Romance at short notice was her specialty," which thus entered the lexicon. Newspapers first and then several volumes published him as the custom of the time.

His works include
* a full-length play, The Watched Pot , in collaboration with Charles Maude;
* two one-act plays;
* a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire , the only book under his own name;
* a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington ;
* the episodic The Westminster Alice , a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland ;
* and When William Came: A Story of London under the Hohenzollerns , an early alternate history.

Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Joseph Rudyard Kipling, influenced Munro, who in turn influenced A. A. Milne, and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.