Waiting for the Fear with Merve Emre

Episode 11 August 22, 2024 00:48:35
Waiting for the Fear with Merve Emre
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Waiting for the Fear with Merve Emre

Aug 22 2024 | 00:48:35

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Show Notes

Critic Merve Emre joins us to discuss Oğuz Atay's short story collection Waiting for the Fear, newly translated from Turkish by Ralph Hubbell. These eight stories, inflected with humor and dread, deal with characters on the margins of society. We talk about the theme of alienation, Atay's relationship to Russian literature, and why so many of the stories take the form of letters.

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