Tabs & Twists
The Disconnected
A milestone of modern Turkish literature: tracing the life of his friend Selim Işık, who took his own life, Turgut Özben comes to question his own life and society.
- Genre
- Literary fiction
- Subgenre
- Psychological dramaSatire
- Setting / Period
- 1970s TurkeyIstanbul
- Publisher
- İletişim Yayınları
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 724
- Language
- Turkish
Review
When the engineer Turgut Özben hears of his friend Selim's death, his orderly life is shaken. As he tries to understand Selim through the writings and letters he left behind and the stories of those who knew him, Turgut faces the "disconnected" side of himself.
Bringing together inner monologues, parodies, poems and even dictionary entries, Oğuz Atay builds a way of storytelling unlike anything in the Turkish novel of his time.
Both very funny and deeply sad, the novel is about the loneliness of people who cannot fit society's molds.
