Gece Yarısı Mavisi التركية 2024

"Midnight Blue" encompasses Füruzan's first short stories, published in magazines before her "Parasız Yatılı" (1971). The book, comprised of sixteen short stories published in the era's leading literary magazines (Seçilmiş Hikayeler, Yenilik, Türk Dili, Pazar Postası, Yeditepe, Dost) between 1956 and 1962, was edited by Olcay Akyıldız and Bilge Ulusman. Füruzan, who passed away in 2023 with her last short story collection, Akim Sevgilim, completes the "Füruzan phenomenon" she created in our literature with her first published short stories under the title Gecemı Mavisi. The fact that the sixteen stories brought together for the first time in this study had previously been published in periodicals and had reached the literary public preemptively eliminated any concerns about a violation of ethical boundaries; however, the necessity of publishing these stories in a book format should be considered an indisputable truth not only from the perspective of the texts' form, language, and content, but also from the perspective of feminist literary criticism. Füruzan's early stories should be considered with a gyno-critical reading, not only in terms of the close ties she established with the storytelling of the 1950s generation, but also in terms of her dialogue with other female writers producing literary texts in the same period. The first step in these studies is, of course, to present these stories in an accessible whole.