Karşıdüşünce

by Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Erol Gökşen (Editor)

Uygarlık ekmekle, suyla, havayla beslenmez. Karşıdüşüncedir uygarlığı doğuran, yaşatan, geliştiren. Her çağda bizi uyanık tutan karşıdüşüncelerdir. “Elmanın yere düşmesinden”, “Aya değen ilk güdümlü mermiye”dek.

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca’nın 1961-1962 yıllarında yayımlanan,“aforizma tılsımlı” "Vatan" Gazetesi yazıları Türkçeyi “ses bayrağım” diye niteleyen şairin dönemin ruhundan da beslenen düşünme pratiğini gösterirken, gerek felsefi içerikleriyle asıl yapıtı Şiirine açılan yalınlığı ve yoğunluğu birleştirerek belirli bir dil estetiğini, gerek kendi sözlüğünü ve gramerini oluşturması açısından belirli bir dil etiğini öne çıkarıyor.

Toplumun düşünmediği, ağacın durduğundan. Senin yürüdüğünden toplumun düşündüğü.

136 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2018

About the author

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was born in 1914, in Istanbul. He graduated from Military Academy, and after fifteen years of service, he left the Turkish Armed Forces in 1950. Between 1952 and 1960, he was employed as an inspector; he retired in 1959 and dedicated himself to composing poetry. However, Dağlarca’s relationship with literature is rooted in his earliest ages. His literary career was launched at age thirteen, as he won first place in a story contest for students.

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca’s poems concentrated on the relationship between the human being and the cosmos, and on the relationship between nature and the supernatural. Yet, the poetry volumes that he published in the 1950s took a different twist and portrayed the relationship between the individual and society, and the relationship between the individual and nature. During the 1960s, social changes that took place in the country caught up with him, and he became increasingly sensitive to domestic and international issues, and aware of national interests. In his poems, he took a stance against exploitation, condemned imperialism, and sympathized with the struggle of abused peoples.