This category features the complete collection of stories by Ömer Seyfettin (1884-1920), the founder and master of modern Turkish short fiction. Seyfettin revolutionized the short story genre in Turkish literature with his realistic narrative style, clear prose, strong plot construction, and surprising endings.
This collection encompasses a wide range of his works, from masterpieces such as “The Bomb” (Bomba), “The First Turkish Child” (Primo Türk Çocuğu), “The Lone Outlaw” (Yalnız Efe), “The Haunted Mansion” (Perili Köşk), “The Scythe” (Kaşağı), “Blood Money” (Diyet), and “Missed Opportunity” (Forsa), to his lesser-known early works.
Ömer Seyfettin’s stories explore themes such as national identity, the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Anatolian life, social criticism, and human psychology. His works are indispensable to Turkish literature, valued both for their literary merit and their significance as historical and social documents.
He asked what he would do with the money he would earn, whether he had debts. He was pleased with the answers Durmuş gave. “Alright, son,” he said. “I’ll take you on but… I can’t give much money…” Durmuş said, […]
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Tents were being set up, cauldrons were being brought down, fires were shining here and there. Among this crowd, Tosun Bey was seen gliding on his chestnut horse. He had caught up with the army two stops behind. He asked
…His relatives called him “eccentric,” those who knew him from afar called him “mad.” He was past forty-five. He still hadn’t married. In summer he would always wander the countryside, watching the sunrise and sunset with an importance peculiar to
Little Ayşe got up from the high loom where she had been weaving cloth since morning, shuttling back and forth. She stretched wearily. Today she was all alone at home. Her father and brothers had gone to town, to the
To feel the greatest joy, the greatest delight, the greatest pleasure and excitement that many years could not contain, to dream the greatest, most unattainable dreams, within twelve short hours… it shakes a person so! The generation after us probably
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Literature, General Topics, The Complete Stories of Ömer SeyfettinFrom Childhood Memories Every morning we would pass by the dilapidated gendarme stables behind the Market Mosque, chirping like a flock of sparrows. The school was a bit further ahead… It was in the middle of a fairly wide courtyard
(The magazine, which has received a patriotic welcome beyond the ordinary, presents to its readers in this issue a long, illustrated story by our brother Ömer Seyfettin Bey, who is well known for his national-patriotic stories and nationalist reflections, depicting
-To Dr. Abdullah Cevdet Bey- A small red book that the Greek maid had given him just as he was about to sit down at the table in the evening had upset all his nerves. This was a propaganda pamphlet.
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How Was He Born? The first part of this short novel was published in “Genç Kalemler” (Young Pens) in Salonika. Here we write a very brief summary of this section. Engineer Kenan Bey married an Italian girl in Izmir ten
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He suddenly saw the foundations of the castles he had built in Spain being dug up. A great benefit was waiting for him… He became a bit philosophical, a bit scholarly. The socialist theories to which he had wholly devoted
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