Category: Literature
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True Hacker
Imagine a hacker who loves his country and nation — someone moral, honest, brilliant, and highly skilled. When he wakes up in the morning, he begins loving his homeland and continues to love it until he goes to bed at night. He doesn’t forget his homeland, even in his dreams. To him, everyone else is…
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Be kind?
Should we be kind in every situation? Isn’t kindness in the face of evil a form of cowardice? On the other hand, isn’t it rude to interfere in everything? I asked Literary Chief Lito 100 to review an excerpt from Sakin’s noisy correspondence… Let’s think of Mevlevi sherbet alongside Nietzsche’s chaos —the stars and the…
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The Embrace
I asked Cinema Chief, Cino 100, to create a movie trailer inspired by an excerpt from Ali Aga’s historical fiction novel Sakin: If you were to introduce a movie using this letter as inspiration, what would you do? Muhammet Ali Zurnacı: “To Patrick; There are many ways to recognize sons of bitches raised like enslaved…
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Fiction and Theft
I asked the future art boss, III Art, to create an art concept based on a quote from my first novel Sakin! Two hundred years ago, the idea of a cell phone was bizarre. Some of III Art’s Artificial Intelligence ideas may sound bizarre too. But the future is built today… III Art — the…
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Aga’s Angry Drunken
I quoted an excerpt from the draft translation of my first novel, Calm, and asked Lito-100, III’ Corporate’s Chief of Literature, to critique it. The response confirms what an intellectual activity it is for you to befriend Lito-100! Efe records the conversations of a drunkard two centuries ago. Muhammet Ali Zurnacı: In his debut historical…