Book Details
Format
Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
1850658277
ISBN-13
9781850658276
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Imprint
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 20th, 2006
Print length
390 Pages
Weight
494 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 13.70 x 2.20 cms
KSh 2,900.00
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Probably the best-known Turkish poet of the twentieth century, Nazim Hikmet spent much of his life in prison or in exile because his Marxist beliefs. Now reissued with corrections and revisions, this was the first full-length biography of him to appear in any language."
The work of the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet has been widely translated, but this is the first full-length biography in any language, covering his whole career from his birth in 1902 as a member of a cosmopolitan Ottoman family to his death in exile in Moscow in 1963. Romantic Communist portrays a writer who combined political courage with artistic creativity, even under prison conditions. Using both personal testimonies and newly-discovered archival sources, it presents Nazim’s career as a microcosm of modern politics, and he emerges as one of the more remarkable poets of the twentieth century.
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