Romantic communist : the life and work of Nazım Hikmet

Author(s)

• Göksu, Saime
• Timms, Edward

Bibliographic Information

Romantic communist : the life and work of Nazım Hikmet

Saime Göksu, Edward Timms

Hurst & Company, c1999

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A biography of poet Nazim Hikmet, this text examines his life and his work, asserting that his creative vision combined a dialectical view of society with passionate personal relationships, all reflected in experimental poetic forms. Stalin's daughter described him as a "romantic communist".

Table of Contents

• The young patriot, 1902-21
• the new world, 1921
• communism under the spotlight, 1921-28
• literature and Marxism - a borrowed shirt? 1928-38
• the army and navy trials, 1938-40
• Bursa prison, 1940-50
• human landscapes
• a sad state of freedom, 1950-51
• romantic communism and real socialism, 1951-63
• "leaving the cities and women I love".

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Details

• NCID: BA4314641X
• ISBN:
  • 1850653712
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxiv, 367 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 894.3513
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Nâzim Hikmet, 1902-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Poets, Turkish -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Communists -- Turkey