Hah
By Birgul Oguz
2012
First Published
3.68
Average Rating
98
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Hah is a short story collection that reads like a novel. The eight and a half stories in Hah contemplate the psychology of mourning and melancholia, and the politics of mourning in particular. The book seeks to answer these questions: how can one mourn when mourning is impossible? How can one write about mourning when it is impossible to find the means to narrate it? And how can one not write when writing is the only way to mourn? Hah, while a product of a specific time and place, resonates with anyone who has ever experienced loss.
Avg Rating
3.68
Number of Ratings
369
5 STARS
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Author
Birgul Oguz
Author · 2 books
Birgül Oğuz was born in İstanbul in 1981. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from İstanbul Bilgi University and completed her Master of Arts degree at the same university in the field of Cultural Studies with a thesis on The Collapse of Authorship and Literary Suicide in Oğuz Atay. Her various short stories, essays and translations were published in Turkish magazines and newspapers such as Varlık, Notos Öykü, Roman Kahramanları, Remzi Kitap, Radikal Kitap, Parşömen, Birikim and Felsefe Logos. The author and dramaturg of Waiting, performed by Tiyatro Oyunevi in 2009, she is also the author of a short fiction book, Fasulyenin Bildiği, with which she has received the 2007 Yaşar Nabi Nayır Youth Award. She is currently giving lectures on text analysis and European novel at Nazım Hikmet Academy Department of Literature in İstanbul. She is also the chief editor of Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs since 2009.
