Remziye Arslan is a subtle sage who weaves the past into the present with an Apollonian sorcery,
who manages to gather the roses in Borges’s Forking Garden into CigerxwÎn’s Gulfirosh and then offer each of them to the good spirits that come her way;
the feminine storyteller of modern times.
The stories of Zamane and Before Zaman, collected under two headings in the book, describe both
the sociological structure of today’s Turkey and the bad luck of the eastern people from a very humanist perspective, without hurting anyone
; She manages to tell it from a woman’s perspective and
weaves ancient stories such as fairy tales and myths into the text, making the reader her companion in the endless journey of the hero that unfolds leaf by leaf. While doing this,
he somehow manages to turn the saints of world literature into the heroes of the story.
The stream of consciousness technique in the narratives and the transformation of pastoral images into the hero of the story
involuntarily draw the reader to classical literature; It takes us all the way back to Goethe and Virgina Wolff. Thus, the author
seals his place in qualified literature.
It is clear that these extraordinary stories told through the eyes of a wise woman will bring a new breath to our literature
.