{"title":"Literature","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sonmus-hayaller_352084-html","title":"Vanished Dreams","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eLost Illusions, written between 1835 and 1843, sits at the pinnacle of Balzac's The Human Comedy (1830-1850), as Balzac himself stated. The three parts that comprise the novel depict the political and social transformations of early 19th-century France and the downfall of the novel's protagonist. It portrays, in three acts, the romanticism identified with the imperial fervor of the Napoleonic era, the bourgeois power intertwined with capital during the Restoration, and the rise of realism in literature. 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The author examines how the dream of an all-seeing, organizing, and managing eye in the face of nature's chaos was repeatedly constructed with modernity, the mindset behind it, and the close relationship between utopia and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSpaces of Living Death: Kafka, Chirico, and Others, which brings together urban planning, painting, and literature, is an intertextual and theoretical critique...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vakıfbank Kültür Yayınları","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39408984457411,"sku":"9786057947505","price":20.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/products\/9786057947505.jpg?v=1616017659"},{"product_id":"nazim-hikmet-in-mimarliga-bakisi","title":"Nâzım Hikmet’s Perspective on Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNâzım Hikmet's Perspective on Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e, penned by Cengiz Bektaş, is a very special study that reveals Nâzım Hikmet's views on architecture... In the book, which will particularly interest people in both culture and literature, as well as architecture and design, Cengiz Bektaş attempts to look at Nâzım, who defined architecture as \"the most advanced of the existing fine arts,\" from the perspective of an architect and a poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCengiz Bektaş, aiming to reveal Nâzım Hikmet's thoughts on architecture by examining his expressions in different publications, under completely different conditions, geographies, and periods, summarizes his findings as follows:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is natural that there is no fundamental contradiction in Nâzım Hikmet's writings on both literature and architecture. It is possible for people in both fields to draw lessons from this. But as a result of my work, with inner peace, it can be said that Nâzım Hikmet was a consistent artist in every aspect... And that he looked at architecture, as he did at all other branches of art, with integrity, sincerity, and in terms of its usefulness to humanity...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike all true artists, Nâzım Hikmet always believed in the future. He always fought for enlightenment. Without ever compromising his humanity or his joy for life... He directed individual love towards society... What he said and what he did were one and the same. His art and his life completely coincided. Like Yunus, like Pir Sultan, he fought for what he believed in throughout his life, both inside and outside...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNâzım Hikmet, who was born on January 15, 1902, and passed away 53 years ago on a June 3rd, addresses architects and \"builders\" as follows:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...To your hands, your eyes,\u003cbr\u003eTo your paper, your compasses, greetings\u003cbr\u003eGreetings to stonemasons, carpenters, fitters\u003cbr\u003eTo those who forge iron, who pour concrete,\u003cbr\u003eTo those who cut wood, to glassmakers,\u003cbr\u003eAnd to all those who have contributed,\u003cbr\u003eEven a speck of effort to this work, greetings...\"\u003cbr\u003e-Nâzım Hikmet-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHO IS CENGİZ BEKTAŞ?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCengiz Bektaş, born in Denizli in 1934 and whom we lost in 2020, completed his secondary education at Istanbul Boys' High School and his higher education at the DGSA Decoration, Architecture Departments, and the Faculty of Architecture at Munich Technical University. He completed his higher education in 1959. In 1960, he attended German urban planning courses. He worked as a freelance architect in Germany, where he received awards in two competitions. When he was invited as a lecturer to METU, he returned to Turkey. In the academic year 1962-63, he directed the METU Construction Works Department, Architecture Workshop for one year. In 1963, he established his own architecture workshop with Oral Vural in Ankara. Between 1963 and 1969, for only six years, he participated in architectural-urban planning competitions. He won over 25 awards. He realized structures considered among the examples of Republican era architectural history. He received the National Architecture Award twice. With the Social-Cultural Center building of Akdeniz University (Antalya), he won the International Aga Khan Award in 2001. The building of the Turkish Language Association was considered one of the twenty buildings symbolizing the Republican era by architects. In 2014, the International Mimar Sinan Award was given to Cengiz Bektaş for the first time. He also received; the 1970 TRT Short Film Award, the 1989 Macedonian Chamber of Architects Award, the 1996 Abdi İpekçi Peace Special Award, the 1998 Association of Freelance Architects Education Award, the 2002 Award for Contribution to Balkan Culture, the 2004 Romania-Azerbaijan Friendship Association's Honorary Award for Special Contribution to Romania-Turkey-Azerbaijan Cultural and Literary Relations, the 2006 Environmental Award from Ovacık (Bergama) Villagers, and the 2009 Enlightenment Honorary Award from the New Generation Village Institutes Association. Cengiz Bektaş entered literary life with his column articles in a Denizli diary in 1950. In 1954, he won first prize in a poetry competition at the DGS Academy, where Bedri Rahmi was on the selection committee. In 1960, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca published Bektaş's poems for the first time in Turkey in Türkçe Dergisi. His poems have been translated into 16 languages. He has 95 works covering architecture and culture, in addition to his poetry books. He attended numerous meetings at home and abroad and presented papers. He wrote entries for encyclopedias. AWARDS IN LITERATURE: 1968 Turkish Language Association Research-Study Branch Award, 1970 TRT Single Poem Award, 1992 Den-Bir Award for Contribution to Culture and Art, 1992 Ketsav Honorary Award, 2002 I. Necati Cumalı Meeting Guest of Honor Award, 2003 Troy Poetry Award, 2004 Didim Peace Festival Honorary Award, 2005 International Ovidius (Romania) Poetry Award, 2005 Azerbaijan Writers' Union Honorary Membership, 2007 Ceyhun Atuf Kansu Poetry Award, 2010 Denizli Culture Contribution Award, 2010 Language Association Honorary Award, 2012 Dionysos Poetry Award. He served as the 2nd President of International PEN Turkey Section for a period, President of the Turkey-Greece Friendship Association for 6 years, and President of the Turkish Writers' Union for 6 years. He is an Honorary Board Member of TYS. Bektaş served as a Member of the Central Executive Board of the TMMOB Chamber of Architects for two years. He was a visiting lecturer in America, Germany, and Macedonia. He taught \"Folk Building Art\" at Eskişehir Anadolu University for one year, at Trakya University for 1.5 years, \"Art Philosophy-Art Sociology\" at Marmara University, and \"Aesthetics\" at Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Fine Arts for 10 years. Between 1999 and 2019, he taught \"The Impact of Culture on Planning\" and \"Volumes of Our Culture\" to graduate students in the Urban Planning Department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. 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