{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-fear-paperback","title":"Waiting for the Fear - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOguz Atay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRalph Hubbell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eMerve Emre\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort stories about people on the margins, from story peddlers to beggars, by one of Turkey's most innovative fiction writers, now in a new English translation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA giant of modern Turkish literature, Oğuz Atay remains largely untranslated into English. First published in 1975, \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Fear \u003c\/i\u003eis Atay's only collection of short stories, praised by the Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk for having transformed the art of short fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAtay's stories are vivid with life's absurdities and psychologically true to life, while his characters, oddballs and losers all, are utterly individual. A brilliant examiner of the inner life, Atay is no less aware of the flawed social world in which his people struggle to make their way, and he is exceptionally attuned to the strange power storytelling itself can exert over fate. In the title story, a nameless young man returns to his home on the outskirts of an enormous nameless city to discover that he has received a letter in a language he neither knows nor recognizes--after which, step by step, the inscrutable missive reshapes his world. In \"Railroad Storytellers: A Dream,\" a professional story peddler lives in a hut beside a train station in a country that is at war--unless it isn't. He can't remember. What do such life and death realities matter, however, so long as there are stories to tell? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRalph Hubbell's fluent and vigorous English rendering of this key work of world literature is a revelation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOğuz Atay\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-1977) was a Turkish modernist writer. His experimental, linguistically complex novels earned him a reputation as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century Turkish literature and a pioneer of the modern Turkish novel. He published two novels in the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eThe Disconnected\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDangerous Games\u003c\/i\u003e, and wrote several other short stories and plays. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Hubbell\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of Turkish literature and writer. His fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eSun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House, Asymptote\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He teaches at Loyola University Maryland and lives in Baltimore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMerve Emre \u003c\/b\u003eis the author or editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eParaliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, The Ferrante Letters, The Personality Brokers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. \u003c\/i\u003e She is a contributing writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and her essays and criticism have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Atlantic, The London Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003eand many other publications. She teaches at Wesleyan University.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725146034239,"sku":"9781681377964","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a9b0a31c3f3700e58481003797e4703c.webp?v=1765105350","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/waiting-for-the-fear-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}