Description
Mai and Black - Red Cat Classics Book Description Mai and Black is a novel of the disappointment of his generation, in the personality of Ahmed Cemil. In this masterful work, Halit Ziya also reveals the literature, art world and sociocultural environment of his period. Ahmed Cemil, who took on the responsibility of making ends meet after his father's death, has to earn his living by working as a private teacher and as a translator at the Sublime Porte. On the other hand, he is writing his "work" to which he has great hopes. If everything goes as he wants, he will become rich and marry his friend Hüseyin Nazmi's sister, Lamia. However, real life has different plans for Ahmed Cemil... The dream that Ahmed Cemil had in Tepebaşı garden, looking at the Golden Horn on a moonlit blue night, ends with him leaving Istanbul in despair on a black night. "He needed to leave, to leave not even a mark of them behind. Weren't they the ones who killed him? Then they died one by one; now, only this work, this last token of a disabled mind, was left. He wanted to kill it, too, and remove it from the stage of existence, just like the others." (From the Promotional Bulletin)
This work, published by Kırmızı Kedi and written by Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, is now in Dünyada Kitap.