He got this position through an influential relative and the pittance he earns as a salary requires his presence in the office only rarely. He has an uninteresting job at the post office, but he rarely shows up. It is the story of Ömer, a young man from the Western Anatolian province that lives now in Istanbul. The Devil Within is a partly autobiographical novel that was first published in 1940. Only 4% of the new books published on the British and American market are translations I read recently - and without some non-profit or non-mainstream publishers it would be even worse ! I am sure readers in these countries are as curious as people in other parts of the world - so why are most publishers failing their costumers so badly? Maybe I should write a bit about this phenomenon and its consequences (together with the fact that native English speakers frequently know no foreign language).
The book is translated in French and in German, but unfortunately (as it is so frequently the case with good books written in other languages!) not in English - although this novel is considered one of the most important books of modern Turkish literature. Today I will review another book from my Turkish book pile, the novel The Devil Within by Sabahattin Ali.
Some of these books have been already reviewed here during the last weeks, including a (for me) surprisingly good crime novel. The presented activities are designed for university students studying in the departments of Turkish Language Teaching and Turkish Language and Literature.One of the tangible results of my summer holiday in Turkey was a big stack of books I bought in various Istanbul bookstores. Purpose of the activities suggested is not to convey the theoretical knowledge to the students, but to raise their awareness by presenting theoretical information through implication. Of literary texts and some of the lexical units used in conveying emotional meaning are discussed and then activity suggestions based on the theoretical background of this study is presented. In this framework, firstly the importance of the components of emotional meaning in the interpretation Literary texts and how these units can be reflected to the teaching process are discussed. In this study, the place of the lexical units related to emotional meaning in interpretation of The emotional meaning that constitutes the subject of research of different disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, and sociology is important in interpretation of literary texts.
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