Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil
Prominent Turkish novelist, short-story writer and playwright; a leading figure of the late Ottoman Servet-i Fünun literary movement, best known for novels such as Aşk-ı Memnu and Mai ve Siyah.
Books
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1. Mai Ve Siyah
A sensitive, idealistic young man leaves the provinces for Istanbul seeking literary acclaim and romantic fulfillment, only to confront social ambition, hypocrisy and moral compromises that slowly shatter his dreams and lead to personal disillusionment and tragedy; the novel paints a psychological portrait of a writer’s inner conflict and contrasts poetic longing with the harsh, pragmatic forces of late-Ottoman bourgeois society.