Literature and Migration

Fontamara by Ignazio Silone Another book and another story of fascism. I can hear you saying that this book cannot be interpreted from the point view of immigration. But in fact, no, there is also an element of internal migration in the book although it is not at the centre at all. Fontamara is a village that always has problems with the hierarchy, with the rulers, governors, with the city people. One of the issues mostly underlined in the book is the different living styles and understandings of the people in the town and in the city. An officer comes from Roma to Fontamara but nobody understands what they want to say or implement: they just say "well he has come here for money". That is for sure clear. The taxes increase all the time and this means bad news for the farm workers of the village mostly, rather than the privileged of the village, the landlords get most of the water, the lawyer who is the only educated one that seems to be standing with the people of t

It is the first time that I read Madonna in a Fur Coat in English.  The more I read it the more I saw in the book what life has taught us about migration and gender roles. Madonna in a Furcoat is the story of a bureaucrat in Ankara who in his past had moved to Berlin to study and work, and had to return to Turkey for family reasons. It can even be said that it was out of his wish to return all of a sudden. When he returned he did not even plan to stay but it was seen that he would not be able to stay longer in Berlin even though he was at the beginning of a relationship.  Previously I read this book two or three times in Turkish. The original book is written in a great and simple style with a rich vocabulary not only Turkish but also including Arabic and Persian words. The book as a style has short sentences nothing is complicated, nothing is too sophisticated. But it is more than just a simple language. The way it is structured is Dostoyevskian. The characters open up to you

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