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Dangerous Games
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Dangerous Games
Oğuz Atay · İletişim Yayınları · 1973
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Summary
The series of anguished, ironic and tragic games that Hikmet Benol plays with his neighbors in a shantytown and with the “Colonel” in his own mind, where reality and fiction, reason and madness intertwine. The modern person’s inability to exist within society and the fragmentation of identity.
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“Words, my Colonel, do not reach certain meanings.”
“A person’s reality begins where the games they play come to an end.”
“Life is not a game long enough to be taken seriously.”
“Whoever cannot set up their own game becomes an extra in someone else’s.”
“To understand a person is to see the helplessness in the game they are playing.”
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Atay turns the tragedy of the modern person losing their mind into a circus. Hikmet Benol is a man who cannot bear the crude reality of the outside world and takes refuge in games to protect the fragile gem within him. Cevvela is the voice of those left half-finished because no one believed in them; Hikmet is crushed under the weight of that disbelief and loses himself in his own games. The book tells us this: a person can paralyze themselves with fears of their own making, without needing an enemy at all. It says that the mad games we invent are more genuine than the world of false, serious crowds. You realize how pitiful the serious games of life you play in order to fit in really are, and that the real truth lies in those dangerous labyrinths of the mind.