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Daha ziyade aile anlatılarıyla tanıdığımız Jean-Louis Fournier bu kez otopsi masasına kendisini yatırıyor: Aşkları, eşi, iş yaşamı ve iz bırakmış anıları Otopsim konusu, dili ve Fournier’nin olmazsa olmaz mizah anlayışı gereği onun başyapıtlarından biri olmaya aday. Hey! Buraya bakın! Mösyö Fournier..

After a mile or so, Pinocchio again heard the same faint voice whispwring: ‘‘Remember,little simpleton! Boys who stop studying anf turn their backs upon books and schools and teachers in order to give all their time to nonsense and pleasure, sooner or later come to grief.Oh, how well I know this! Ho..

Dilimden mi düştü heceler kâğıda, ağzımdan mı çıktı cümleler ya da kalbimden gelen sese mi dikildi kulaklarım? Anlamaya çalıştığım ya da hissettiğim bu şeyler; sözler midir yazdıklarım, kelimeler, kavramlar, heceler, harfler, tekrarsız ve tekrar eden sesler… Öyle de olsa böyle de onları taş tabletle..

Gezmenin ve farklı kültürel çevreler görmenin ne kadar özel bir anlam taşıdığını Evliya Çelebi´yi okuduktan sonra anlıyor insan. Bakmak ile görmek arasındaki o ince ayırımın varlığı da ancak Seyahatname ile fark edilebiliyor.Evliya Çelebi´nin Seyahatnamesi, yaşadığı döneme ait menkıbelerin, tarihi e..

As if in answer to his words there rose suddenly out of the vast gloom of the moor that strange cry which I had already heard upon the borders of the great Grimpen Mire. It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it..

Kama is the enjoyment of appropriate objects by the five senses of hearing, feeling, seeing, tasting, and smelling, assisted by the mind together with the soul. The ingredient in this is a peculiar contact between the organ of sense and its object, and the consciousness of pleasure which arises from..

“My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltati..

“Well, Holmes,” I murmured, “have you found anything out?”He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the tall, lean figure inclined towards me. “I say, Watson,” he whispered, “would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot w..

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost a..

‘How much better is silence; the coffee-cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee-cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. Do not come and worry m..

İlk kez yayımlandığı 1876 yılından bu yana Mark Twain’in en ünlü kitaplarından biri olan “Tom Sawyer’ın Maceraları”, okurlarını her günün yeni bir macerayla dolu olduğu çocukluk günlerinin masumiyetine ve heyecanına götürüyor.“Teyzesi ve kardeşiyle beraber yaşayan haylaz ve zeki Tom Sawyer’ın her gü..

She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this ‘must’. A piece of iron must feel suc..