Literature
The Disconnected
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The Disconnected
Oğuz Atay · İletişim Yayınları · 1972
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7.3 (4.298 oy)
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Turgut Özben begins investigating the past of his friend Selim Işık, who has taken his own life — and so begins the tragicomic struggle for existence of the “disconnected,” those who reject bourgeois values, social norms and counterfeit intellectuals. The novel of the great rift between a person’s own truth and the lies of society.
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“I am turning back to my inner world. There is no room for disappointment there.”
“For fear of hanging a bad painting, I never hung one; for fear of living badly, I never lived at all.”
“To live among people, you had to take part in their lies.”
“The disconnected are those who refuse to play by other people’s rules.”
“You must understand me right away, because I am not a book — because once I die, no one can read me.”
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Atay wrote this text by breaking the rules, bending the language and using irony like a spear. Selim Işık is not a character but the cry of a gem that falls silent because it is not understood in these lands — a gem denied. He shows, with such merciless mockery, that being “successful” really means selling your soul, and that fitting into society means mental suicide, that you bleed while you laugh. Turgut breaking away from his comfortable bourgeois life to take on Selim’s legacy — that is, not being able to hold on — is Cevvela’s principle that “integrity is a matter of character” turned into action. It commands us to choose a dignified solitude rather than blending into false crowds. It pushes you down from the fake branches you cling to, toward your own truth.