The Red Motorcycle
by Fatma Akerson
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The Red Motorcycle is made up of three narratives “The Red Motorcycle,” “The Tiny Footprints of a Girl on Sand” and “Belakane.”
The first story, “The Red Motorcycle” consists of ten letters written by the narrator in retrospective. They are addressed to an Italian friend who, although a foreigner, is familiar with the Mediterranean.
The second story, “The Tiny Footsteps of a Girl on Sand” tells of an aged man, who has fallen desperately in love with a very young woman. Following the footprints of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king (ca 2000 BC) he attempts to reach Utnapishtim, in order to learn the secret of immortality. Anxiously the young woman, now a writer, sets forth to find him.
The third story, “Belakane”” begins with a summary of an episode from Eschenbach’s (13th c.) Parcifal. Eschenbach gives an account of how Parcifal’s father, Gachmuret, who was a rich knight in the service of the Chalif, falls in love with the pagan queen Belakane, but then leaves her just before the birth of their child (Feirefiz). Almost seven hundred years later, we find another Belakane in the vicinity of Beirut.
All three stories have a rather “cool” style. The writing never turns pathetic, idioms of alienation are employed and a certain irony is always present. No scene ends without a note of hope.
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Author Biography
Fatma Akerson, born in Istanbul, to a
lawyer father and a professor mother at
the Istanbul University’s French Philology
department. She studied Germanistics
at Istanbul University and taught
linguistics, semiotics and literature
theory at Istanbul, Mimar Sinan,
Marmara and Yeditepe Universities.
Besides her academic books and articles
and translations including abbreviated
translation of Mimesis by Erich
Auerbach, Architecture and Language
by Günther Fischer, Function and Sign:
Semiotics of Architecture by Umberto
Eco, some short stories from Jorge Luis
Borges, she is the author of four books,
Kırmızı Motorsiklet (The Red Motorcycle,
2013), Nisan (April, 2014), Düğmeler ve
Başka Şeyler (Buttons and Other Things,
2016) and Gözyaşı Kuşları (Tears of the
Weeping Birds, 2019)
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- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleKırmızı Motosiklet
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