In the opening line, Cem states that he wanted to become a writer but due to the events he became something else, but his son Enver becomes a writer. There is a professor tone in this book which I sometimes feel a bit shy about, but then this is actually what I wanted to do. The self-conscious thing that I did with this book was not only using Oedipus Rex and Rostam and Sohrab, but also openly discussing them like a professor in the second part of the book. In fact, the beauty of the story is that it disturbs us and we don’t know why, but of course we have elementary thinking about it – that it is killing the father or the father killing the son that is the most disturbing thing – and my book is addressing this sentiment. Is there something similar in this myth which you wanted to name, to come clean about?Įven if I had known this discomforting, disturbing element in the story, I wouldn’t tell you that of course. When your protagonist Cem is told the story of Joseph being thrown into the well by his brothers, he says there are some elements which make him feel uncomfortable and irritate him but which he cannot name.
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