DL/A-Z//ATA - [Correspondence from Erendiz Atasü]

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[Correspondence from Erendiz Atasü]

15/12/1994

1 Letters (typescript)
1 Reprints

Atasü, Erendiz

001 is a letter from Erendiz Atasü to Doris Lessing. She devotes most of the letter to analysing The Golden Notebook in the context of feminism, gender, creativity, sexuality, mental illness, Marxism and the political situation in Turkey.

Quotes: "I was fascinated by the genuineness of the book; it is so much like life itself, carrying nearly all the diversities and conflicts of life; and still it is art..." "I read your novel in an hectic mood, because I so much identified myself with it as a woman (funny, how similar the experiences shared by women are, in spite of all cultural differences)..." "I can hardly say I miss a man – any man or a particular man. I think sexual love is a stage one grows out of.."

Atasü mentions attaching copies of two of her stories in English translation, "Under a Foreign Sky" [not present] and [presumably, since present as 002] "A Wind Blew From Yemen". She explains the background to the composition of "Under a Foreign Sky".

002 is a copy of Atasü's short story "A Wind Blew From Yemen".