SÜLEYMAN, Şahabettin.

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Çıkmaz Sokak ("Dead End"). First editions of four important plays from the turn of the 20th century, focusing on sexuality and the role of women in a rapidly changing society, which rocked late Ottoman Turkey's literary world. The first is Dead End, which examines the consequences of an affair between the wives of two brothers who inhabit the same house and constitutes one of the earliest representations of a lesbian relationship in modern Turkish literature.Şahabettin Süleyman (d. 1921) was a founding member of the Fecr-i Ati (Coming Dawn) movement, which took inspiration from French symbolism. He spent much of his career teaching languages at secondary schools in Istanbul. He died early, at the age of 36, having caught Spanish flu while on holiday in Switzerland. Although he married the daughter of a prominent official and was a well-respected figure, his plays sparked controversy for their treatment of sexuality, gender, class, and race. Süleyman wrote Kırık Mahfaza and Ben...Başka in collaboration with Tahsin Nahit. Kırık Mahfaza tells of Nahit's affair with a prostitute and his family's refusal to accept his wish to marry her, while Ben...Başka represents a group of young women and their consideration of art, life, and morality.Haralambos Cankiyadis is the only play written by Safveti Ziya (d. 1929), a member of the Servet-i Fünun (Wealth of the Arts) movement. It is a fictionalized treatment of the life of a Greek banker from Kayseri, who is represented as part of a non

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