Poetry
Kapalı Çarşı
Not translated into English
Behçet Necatigil · 1945
Synopsis
The author's first collection. According to a course at Ankara University, it belongs to an early period in which the poet is still looking for his voice, under the influence of poets he admires, and its poems speak of marriage, dreams of family happiness, nature and the love of life. All his work, according to turkedebiyati.org and the Turkish Language Institute, revolves around the home, the family and the close circle, grasped in the real and imagined life of a man of middling condition. The poems are not described one by one.
Context
The collection appeared in 1945, the year the author began teaching at Kabataş; two others followed, in 1951 and in 1953. He had published his first poem at school, in the journal Varlık. He later translated, among others, Rilke in 1948 and several books by Knut Hamsun. The poet called himself a poet of houses and families, and, according to the same course, his language stands midway between the spoken language and literary Turkish.
Who it is for
Short poems in Turkish, about everyday life; no French translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
First book of a poet with a coherent and singular world, according to the critic cited by İsmail Karakurt.
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