Ahmet Altan

The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware of his. I suffer the pathetic torment of profound helplessness, just as he did. Like a cursed oracle, I foresaw my future years ago not knowing that it was my own. Confined in a cell four metres long, imprisoned on absurd, Kafkaesque charges, novelist Ahmet Altan is one of many writers persecuted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's oppressive regime. In this extraordinary memoir, written from his prison cell, Altan reflects upon his sentence, on a life whittled down to a courtyard covered by bars, and on the hope and solace a writer's mind can provide, even in the darkest places.

I Will Never See the World Again

1900 başlarında Istanbul'da geçen tarihi bir roman

roman

Kılıç yarası gibi

A “magical, marvellous” epic of an empire in collapse: Book one in the acclaimed Ottoman Quartet by the award-winning Turkish author and political dissident (La Stampa, Italy). Tracking the decline and fall of the Ottoman empire, Ahmet Altan’s Ottoman Quartet spans fifty years from the end of the nineteenth century to the post-WWI rise of Atatu ̈rk as leader of the new Turkey. In Like a Sword Wound, a modern-day resident of Istanbul is visited by the ghosts of his ancestors, finally free to tell their stories “under the broad, dark wings of death.” Among the characters who come to life are an Ottoman army officer; the Sultan’s personal doctor; a scion of the royal house whose Western education brings him into conflict with his family’s legacy; and a beguiling Turkish aristocrat who, while fond of her emancipated life in Paris, finds herself drawn to a conservative Muslim spiritual leader. As their stories of intimate desire and personal betrayal unfold, the society that spawned them is transforming and the sublime empire disintegrating. Here is a Turkish saga reminiscent of War and Peace, written in lively, contemporary prose that traces not only the social currents of the time but also the erotic and emotional lives of its characters. “An engrossing novel of obsessive love and oppressive tyranny, a tale of collapse that dramatizes the fateful moments of an empire and its subjects.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Like a Sword Wound

İçimizde bir yer

Yalnızlığın özel tarihi

deneme

Karanlıkta sabah kuşları

roman : 1983 Akademi Kitabevi roman büyük ödülü

Dört mevsim sonbahar

Cep Boy

En Uzun Gece

Roman (Turk yazarlari)

Kilic yarasi gibi

denemeler

Ve kırar göǧsüne bastırırken

Aldatmak

Geceyarısı şarkıları

»Ich werde die Welt nie wieder sehen. Ich werde nie wieder den Himmel ohne den Rahmen sehen, den die Wände des Gefängnishofes bilden.« Am 16. Februar 2018 wurde der große türkische Intellektuelle Ahmet Altan in der Türkei zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt. Altan ist einer der wichtigsten, mutigsten Journalisten der Türkei, der immer offen gesagt hat, was er denkt. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, »unterschwellige Botschaften« über den Putschversuch im Jahr 2016 verbreitet zu haben. Am 26. September 2018 wird im S. Fischer Verlag »Ich werde die Welt nie wieder sehen. Texte aus dem Gefängnis« erscheinen. Es ist eine beeindruckende Sammlung teilweise sehr persönlicher, fast philosophischer Texte, in denen Altan auf eindringliche Weise über Freiheit, sein Leben im Gefängnis und die politische Situation in der Türkei schreibt. Ein eindrucksvolles Buch und wichtiges Zeugnis. Zum Erscheinen jährt sich seine Verhaftung zum zweiten Mal, denn seit dem 23. September 2016 sitzt er in Untersuchungshaft.

Texte aus dem Gefängnis

Ich werde die Welt nie wiedersehen

Sudaki iz

Bir Hayat Bir Hayata Değer

Madame Hayat

Dying is Easier Than Loving

En forfatter som arver en stor sum fra sin far, flytter til en lille provinsby for at skrive den sidste kriminalroman. Der bliver han en del af sin egen roman

Son oyun

Ölmek Kolaydır Sevmekten

Ahmet Altan

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