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That evening I had arrived in Cumayıbâlâ from Demirhisar late and tired. The weather had been very hot during the day. My headache prevented me from even noticing the hungry bedbugs of the old and filthy hotel. But in the […]
Freedom Flags | Ömer Seyfettin Read More »
Literature, General Topics
“…Let them show at once. We shall dive in, destroy the enemy and place the king’s crown and throne upon his head and go all the way to the Red Apple…” The Grand Sekbanbaşı — To the Red Apple. —
Red Apple | Ömer Seyfettin Read More »
Literature, General Topics
I believe there is nothing more tormenting in this world than to hate oneself! When we sense the baseness, the vileness of a friend whose roles and lies have deceived us for years, we immediately part ways with them. It
The Inheritance | By Ömer Seyfettin Read More »
Literature, General Topics
If only you knew, my dear Efruz, how peacefully I have been living here for forty days. No noise, no sound, no friends, no enemies! No commotion! No fatigue! And gone is that nervous fever we call ‘ambition’—the thing that
The Mosquito | Ömer Seyfettin Read More »
Literature, General Topics
Cabi Efendi, unlike other elderly men, did not spend his days idling at home from morning till night. True, he never lifted a finger for any serious work either, saying, “I have food to eat, drink to drink! What do
The Marble Counter | Ömer Seyfettin Read More »
Literature, General Topics
I didn’t see more interest from my wife, my children, generally from the household; but I knew I had no right to expect this. The feeling of unnecessariness I had first felt in Berlin on that strange New Year’s Day
MADONNA IN A FUR COAT | Part-10 | SABAHATTIN ALI Read More »
Literature, General Topics
“Talk to the doctors, let them discharge me now,” she said. Then, as if saying something ordinary, she murmured: “You look after me better!” Without answering, I burst outside. The specialist wanted her to stay a few more days. We
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Literature, General Topics
I had understood she was beginning to get a bit drunk. She had gotten up from the chair across from me and sat beside me, putting her arm on my shoulder. My heart was beating rapidly like a coughing bird’s
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Literature, General Topics
She paused a bit and examined my face. She drank some wine. As she talked, she seemed to be opening up and freeing herself from her distress. “Why are you astonished?” she continued. “Don’t be afraid, it’s not as you
MADONNA IN A FUR COAT | Part-7 | SABAHATTIN ALI Read More »
General Topics, Literature
I called the waiter and paid the bill. I had suddenly opened up, become emboldened. I was looking straight into the face of the man writing a few numbers on a long-leafed notebook, as if to say “Don’t you notice
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Literature, General Topics
