Sergüzeşt-in modern Turkish

“Compare Sergüzeşt with a building built by a young, diligent and skillful architect before he had any experience. We hope you will not be deceived.” Sergüzeşt, the first and only novel of Samipaşazade Sezai, who brought a new breath to our literature with Mizancı Murat Küçük Şeyler, is considered the harbinger of a transformation in our literary history, both with its fiction and narration. Dilber's adventure, which was brought from the Caucasus at a young age and sold in Istanbul, is in the XIX. The author, who skillfully describes the destruction caused by human trafficking in the life of individuals and society, which was still ongoing in the Ottoman Empire at the end of the century, also sheds light on the socio-cultural structure of his period. We hope that Sergüzeşt, which presents impressive scenes from one hundred and fifty years ago to today's readers, will be read and liked more and more as the years go by. Samipaşazade Sezai (1859-1936) Born in Istanbul, Sezai's childhood and adolescence passed in the large mansion of his father, Sami Pasha, who was also the Minister of Education. This mansion is an important meeting point that hosts the famous intellectuals, writers and poets of the period. Sezai meets many writers and poets here. He takes Arabic, Persian and French lessons from private teachers. Sezai, who adopted the innovative ideas of Namık Kemal and his close friend Abdülhak Hamit, whom he was greatly influenced by in his youth, was appointed as the second clerk to the London Embassy in 1880. Here he finds the opportunity to examine Western literature, especially the works of Shakespeare. This time he spent in London broadened his world of thought and literary horizons. Until 1901, he continued his duty as an assistant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Istanbul. He published Sergüzeşt, Küçük Şeyler and Rumûzü'l-Edeb in the years 1886-1901 he spent in Istanbul. The first deep-rooted determinations about the European European world of Istanbul appear in his works. His processing of the concepts of captivity and freedom in Sergüzeşt causes the government to fall into the circle of pursuit, and he flees to Paris in 1901, where he joins the Young Turks. We will continue to feature selected works of Samipaşazade Sezai, one of the pioneers of innovative literature in the Tanzimat period, in our Turkish Literature Classics Series. More than 5 stocks are offered to be sold at the campaign price.