Literature
Ordeal
CevvelaLiterature
Ordeal
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek · Büyük Doğu Yayınları · 1962
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Necip Fazıl's towering poetic work — a raw account of the torment, existential dread, and fear of death that marked his passage from bohemian wandering to absolute faith, driven by the unsettling rhythm of classical Turkish meter.
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“For thirty whole years my clock kept ticking while I stood still / I flew kites, unaware of the sky.”
“Reason is a torn sack; it cannot carry the truth.”
“Do not say “I have eyes, reason, thoughts”; slay them all.”
“Neither the sick await the morning, nor the grave the fresh dead / As much as I await you.”
“A human being can fill the bottomless void within only with the Absolute.”
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Çile is a descent into hell — Turkish poetry walking the edge of losing its mind. It is the record of a terrifying duel between a man and his own nothingness, between a self and whatever we dare call God. Cevvela knows that when the unrefined ore inside a person begins to stir, this kind of anguish is part of what surfaces. Necip Fazıl tells us that the mind hurls itself against its own limits until it bleeds — and that the bleeding is precisely what leads a person toward truth. Reading him, you feel it in your bones: the shallow, distraction-saturated life of modern existence is not peace. It is a madness in disguise. Reason, he insists, can only carry you so far before it runs out of road. Faith, in these pages, is not a quiet harbour. It is a well of fire — and the person falling into it is falling inward.