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Human Landscapes from My Country An Epic Novel in Verse
by Hikmet, Nazim, Blasing, Randy, Konuk, Mutlu
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- Comments: Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xiv, 466 pages ; 24 cm. <br> Written in free verse and employing such cinematic techniques as flashbacks, pans, zooms, dissolves, and jump cuts, this stunning 17,000 line novel in verse traces the fortunes of men and women during Turkey's change from an Islamic empire to a secular republic and exemplifies his vision of life as a communal experiment in creating a world in the image of our dreams.
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- ISBN-13: 9780892552733
- ISBN: 0892552735
- Edition: 1
- Publication Date: 2002
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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"Hikmet wrote his epic HUMAN LANDSCAPES FROM MY COUNTRY...before the moon launch, during World War II, and the war provides the backdrop for the portraits that he sketches with a dramatic, sweeping line. The poem's compassion embraces everyone, from petty village hustlers to communist historians to Nazi grunts to nursing home accountants to smugglers....Some of the portraits extend for hundreds of lines, but even in the briefest vignettes the reader's sympathy may change sides a half-dozen times...Hikmet's digressive structure allows him to include the widest possible range of human complexity...Hikmet's minutely observed life-studies encompass more than his country. He has left us a human landscape of the 20th century.Hikmet, Nazim is the author of 'Human Landscapes from My Country An Epic Novel in Verse', published 2002 under ISBN 9780892552733 and ISBN 0892552735.
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