Tutunamayanlar

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name = Tutunamayanlar
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image_caption = İletişim Yayınları, 39th Edition
author = Oğuz Atay
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country = Turkey
language = Turkish
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genre = Stream of Consciousness
publisher = İletişim Yayınları (İstanbul)
release_date = 1972
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 724pp
isbn = ISBN 975-470-011-7
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"Tutunamayanlar" (in Eng. "The Disconnected") is the first novel of Oguz Atay, one of the most prominent Turkish authors. It was written in 1970-71 and published in 1972. Although it was never reprinted in his lifetime and was controversial among critics, it has become a best-seller since a new edition came out in 1984. It has been described as “probably the most eminent novel of twentieth-century Turkish literature” [http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19184&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html] . This reference is due to a UNESCO survey, which goes on: “it poses an earnest challenge to even the most skilled translator with its kaleidoscope of colloquialisms and sheer size.” No translation has yet appeared in any language. It teases the well-established norms of the Turkish bourgeois world by a style which only "the disconnected" could empathize with.