Starting a
new small press! Many do, but not many can start by introducing to the English
speaking world a major work in the canon of world literature. Oğuz Atay,
Tutunamayanlar, which we translate as 'The Disconnected' (for reasons to be
explained - watch this blog) was published in 1972. Widely reckoned to be the
most important single work in modern Turkish literature it was virtually
unknown outside its native country until last year, when a German translation
was published. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, for one, found it astonishing that this
masterpiece should wait 45 years to appear in German.
More to
follow.
