Peyami Safa

Peyami Safa ( born April 2, 1899 in Istanbul, † June 15, 1961 ibid ), pseudonym server Bedi, was a Turkish writer.

Life and work

His father, the famous writer Ismail Safa, lived with the family in Sivas. He died when Peyami Safa was two years old. Then Safa and his mother moved to Istanbul. Due to a severe bone disease Safa escaped at the age of eight years only about an amputation of an arm and had to stop his schooling at this age.

With 13 years Safa began to work as a printer. His first short story he published 14 In 1912 he was appointed at the Turkish Ministry of Post and could incidentally make up for his education. From 1914 to 1918 he worked as a teacher and published texts in the Istanbul newspaper Yirminci Asir.

Gradually he was able to gain a foothold as a writer. He published further in newspapers and wrote besides novels, short stories, essays and short stories. Under the pseudonym server Bedi, he published detective novels, with which he financed his livelihood.

The central themes of his work are the contrast between East and West and the question of Turkey's role between these two poles. In numerous essays Safa has argued against a compulsive westernization of Turkey: Kemalism He saw the danger that moral weakness in Turkish society would find their way through an excessive rapprochement with the West.

In his first novel " Sözde Kızlar " ( " The apparent Girls " ), he presents this conflict based on the comparison between women in different Turkish regions represents the Anatolian women is characterized Safa doing virtuous and chaste, while he represents women from Istanbul as immoral persons have lost their love for the nation and religion. Similarly, in his 1931 novel, " Fatih - Harbiye " ( " Between East and West" ): This Safa compares two contrasting districts of Istanbul: the conservative Fatih and the more Western- oriented Harbiye. The two male protagonists who woo the same woman come from these different worlds and are socialized differently. The protagonist is between two worlds torn.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called Safa a " great Turkish novelist ", the Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes about him: " Peyami Safa, a conservative novelist and journalist, did not deny the high values ​​of Western culture, but claimed that this culture since the mid- 19th century located in a severe mental crisis and thus could no longer exert any role model. "

Safa died in 1961 of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Works

In German are Peyami Safa appeared, among other things:

  • Room 9 for external diseases - Gummersbach: Florestan 1947
  • Between East and West - Leipzig: Payne 1943
  • Slip Girls
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