UgurApr 7, 2025
Lately, I’ve been reading works by rebellious Turkish writers. Their stories often follow a painful patten, they spoke out against the system, were arrested, and some were even murdered. It’s both powerful and heartbreaking.
For example Sabahattin Ali.
- He was a socially conscious, left-leaning writer.
- He wrote for the oppressed, the poor, and the forgotten.
- He believed literature should fight injustice.
- That belief got him arrested, censored, and finally killed.
Sabahattin Ali was a writer who told the truth and the truth killed him.
#dissident #politicalwriters #literatureofresistance #sabahattinali #turkishwriters
Show threadbs2Feb 9, 2024

> Time that is intolerant
Of the brave and innocent,
And indifferent in a week
To a beautiful physique,
> Worships language and forgives
Everyone by whom it lives,
Pardons cowardice, conceit,
Lays its honors at their feet.
> Time that with this strange excuse
Pardoned Kipling and his views,
And will pardon Paul Claudel,
Pardons him for writing well.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165810/wh-auden-memory-wb-yeats
#Auden #WHAuden on #PoliticalWriters
#RudyardKipling #PaulClaudel

In Memory of W.B. Yeats

I. He disappeared in the dead of winter.The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,And snow disfigured the public statues;The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.O all the instruments agreeThe day of his death was a dark cold day.Far from his illness,The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests,The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays;By mourning tonguesThe deat...

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