#madonna in a fur coat

[discoursets]

books of autumn. 🍁

[thevampiricnihal]

From Sabahattin Ali’s 1943 novella Madonna in a Fur Coat (translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe). It is one of the most popular and often-read Turkish classics, it is about the romance between a young Turkish man and a young German woman in 1923’s Berlin. (I am reading it now, I am currently at the chapter after this part).

It is so interesting to me that he likens the love interest to Nihal instead of Bihter.

The translation is lacking: In the Turkish passage the female figure also has “both innocence and willpower” along with “anguish and resolve”, which is very Nihal.

In a way the woman in the portrait that will later materialize as the female love interest (Maria Puder) being first likened to Nihal is very fitting, since Nihal too is first introduced/singled out/described in the narration of Aşk-ı Memnu via her portrait carved into wood (as opposed to how she was previously mentioned as a unit with her brother Bülent):

“For the last few days he had been trying to work a little plate with Nihal’s profile in its centre. He wanted to take this in his hand, wanted to work; he couldn’t work. He rang the bell again. Nesrin came in once more.

‘Haven’t Nihal and Bülent arrived?’

This time Nesrin smiled as she answered. ‘They haven’t, sir, but they will be here any minute now.’

When the girl had gone out, Adnan Bey felt a clear fear in his heart. Yes, they would be here any minute, and then, what would he do then?

He was thinking chiefly of Nihal. (…)

“Adnan Bey stretched out his hand, picked up the unfinished portrait of Nihal. This had not yet been completed, neither the waves of her hair that made a silken frame around her face, nor the unhealthy gauntness of her frail countenance. But he could clearly see, among those vague lines, the ailing face that gave him the urge to cry whenever he beheld it.

Ah! Nihal’s sorrowful, jaundiced face that seemed to complain of being alive; and in its yellow hue the deceptive joy of a fugitive pink, trembling with the delicacy of a rose that will fade at once. Those eyes that tried to fool you with their smile when she was ill, that tried to lull those around her into contentment, that laughed while deep within, her sickening soul wept. He saw the meaning behind all of these. He remembered at that time, his daughter’s illnesses, the nervous fits, the headaches that began all the way at the nape of her neck and continued for weeks…

(Chapter 2)

Of course the love interest in Madonna in a Fur Coat (Maria Puder) is being introduced via her self-portrait, whereas Nihal’s portrait is being made by her father. Which is also meaningful. Maybe it is the difference between a child and a woman, maybe it is the difference between an “Eastern” woman and a “Western” one, maybe it is the difference between a woman of 19th century and a woman of 20th century - it is probably all of these.

@winged-cries @princesssarisa @artemideaddams @ariel-seagull-wings @pileofsith @moonsingh @julyzaa

[beljar]

After spending two hours with a book, and finding it more pleasurable than two years of real life, I’d remember again that life had no meaning, and sink back into despair.

Sabahattin Ali, from Madonna in a Fur Coat, 1943

[literarylullaby]

I have to remind myself that if I don't take care of myself, eventually my body will force me to. its better to never get to that point where you are at war with your body and just hoard all the stress that comes with regret.

so far I am severely burned out and I look at everything online to help me figure out how to not be in this toxic cycle where I binge self care and then end up indulging in neglect. overall its down to discipline but the only difference is that I kept trying to build this discipline out of fear instead of a comforting place to remind my body and mind that I have to keep up with my tasks and work from a place of love and empathy. that i'd love myself more and be helpful if i don't avoid in doing xyz task.

in case you need the reminder: close your laptop and phone, go outside (in whatever way you're capable of getting fresh air), shower, take 10 min to clean up your space, write down 3 things you desire in a small paper and chuck it away somewhere and spend sometime dreaming/imagining about what you wrote (as adults we're told to stop dreaming and be practical to the point i think most adults around me say they don't dream anymore in their sleep😞)

🎼 red tears by the johns

[andreabadgley]

Continuing my reading tour of Turkey.

[movedtoeskew]

oh shit it's post in your language day *felkap egy szűrt és egészben megeszik egy vöröshagymát*

[roadhawke]

The video accompanying my previous post's photo set is at

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClPGV9xgfMc/

[najadaz]

Madonna in a fur coat📖

[itsallmadonnasfault]

Madonna was spotted in New York this week following a romantic getaway with her toyboy lover Akeem Morris, 28, in London recently.

The superstar singer, 66, cut a seriously cool figure in a PVC trench coat with a fur collar, which she wore with a silk dress and lace boots.

Despite the late hour, Madonna added a pair of chic shades to her ensemble, while wearing her blonde hair in loose waves.

Madonna was seen leaving Alice Tully Hall, which is a concert hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the Upper West Side.

[laurapetrie]

can you do a comprehensive list of your all-time favorite works of literature?

Okay, comprehensive. Let's see.

- Any word that ever came out of Fitzgerald's pen. Not me going through his trash and reading his canceled checks to his bootlegger while copiously weeping, “THIS IS POETRY!” - La Dame aux Camelias - Eugene Onegin  - The short stories of Katherine Mansfield, Ivan Bunin, and Aleksandr Kuprin - Les Fleurs du Mal - La Vita Nuova - Victoria (Hamsun) - Leone Leoni, Sand in general - One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances - White Nights - Andersen's fairy tales - Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Manon Lescaut - Undine - Vanina Vanini - On Tangled Paths. Or Effi Briest. Can't choose! - The Pursuit of Love/Hons and Rebels double feature - Franny and Zooey - Le Rêve (Zola) - Notre Coeur - Idylls of the King - The Pillow Book - As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams. Forget Austen versus Bronte - are you a Lady Sarashina or a Sei Shonagon? - Madame Bovary - Spring Torrents, First Love, literally anything by Turgenev - A Farewell to Arms - my all-time number one forever favorite book - Le Grand Meaulnes - Aucassin and Nicolette - KEATS! - Sunflower (Krudy) - the Anne of Green Gables series, for sentimental reasons - The Portrait of a Lady - Great Expectations - The Artificial Silk Girl - Hardy in general, but especially Tess of the d’Urbervilles and The Return of the Native - Les Miserables - A Double Life (Karolina Pavlova) - War and Peace - Spring Snow - Fêtes galantes (Verlaine) - Slow Days, Fast Company - Sylvie (Nerval) - Complete Works of Shakespeare - My Antonia - Love in a Fallen City - Madonna in a Fur Coat

[thevampiricnihal]

I have absolutely no tolerance for Raif Efendi not choosing to be a father to his daughter from the woman he loved. I understand that he hates himself and is a chronic introvert but this is ridiculous to me. I don’t care if my perspective on this will be deemed “shallow” by some people. All of his romantic thoughts and philosophizing feels completely empty after this.

[beljar]

Why is it that even in the way you beg, there is dominance, and pity in the way we refuse?— there is no other creature on this earth that races after such easy success, and no other creature as proud, arrogant and egotistical, yet at the same time cowardly and set in his ways. Once I became aware of all of this, it was impossible for me to truly love men. Even the ones I liked the most,— the moment would arrive when some minor provocation had them baring their wolfish teeth; after being together, and giving each other an equal amount of pleasure, they’d sidle up to me, sighing idiotically, and either apologize or offer to protect me, making it clear that in their eyes, they had vanquished me… But they were in fact the ones who had exposed just how pitiful and miserable they really were. There is no woman as pitiful and ridiculous as a man swept away by his passions. At the same time they take huge pride in them, seeing them as proof of their virility.— Although I know that there is in me no tendency towards the unnatural, I would rather fall in love with a woman.’—It’s just that I’m a artist, as you know… I have my own standards of beauty… I don’t think it would be beautiful to make love to a woman… How can I put it… the aesthetics would be all wrong.

Maria Pruder, from Madonna in a Fur Coat, 1943 by Sabahattin Ali

[lonelychicago]

i finished madonna in a fur coat yesterday and I'm still thinking about it...... oh the yearning, oh!! the fleeting nature of happiness!!! it was so heartbreaking and devastatingly sad!

[felinemotif]

🐈‍⬛ | 2024 reading list

eileen by ottessa moshfegh | in the miso soup by ryu murakami | slow days, fast company by eve babitz | ✰✰✰ the memory police by yoko ogawa | sharks in the rivers by ada límon | sister of mine by laurie petrou | y/n by esther yi | my body by emily ratajkowski | ✰✰✰✰ tennis lessons by susannah dickey | goddess of filth by v castro | ✰✰✰✰

lolita by vladimir nabokov | being lolita by alisson wood | no ballet shoes in syria by catherine bruton | an education in malice by s.t. gibson | a long time dead by samara breger | the hacienda by isabel cañas | the mermaid from jeju by sumi hahn | the lover by silvia moreno-garcia | ✰✰✰✰ água viva by clarice lispector | penance by eliza clark | monstrilio by gerardo sámano córdova | the last tale of the flower bride by roshani chokshi | corazón by yesika salgado | valley of the dolls by jacqueline susann | my body keeps your secrets by lucia osborne-crowley | the torn skirt by rebecca godfrey | a girl is a half-formed thing by eimear mcbride | madonna in a fur coat by sabahattin ali | sugar, baby by celine saintclare | cross roads by laurel hightower | dear laura by gemma amor | they drown our daughters by katrina monroe | the pure moon reflected on the water by zen cho | rest and be thankful by emma glass | the keeper of the night by kylie lee baker | the empress of time by kylie lee baker | notes from the underground by dostoevsky | white nights by dostoevsky | rouge by mona awad | big bad by chandler baker |

[gghostwriter]

oops sorry that’s probably not a great distraction anyways how are you doing? have you done or read or watched anything interesting lately?

doing great (besides from the fact that I should be working rn lol)

oooh reading wise, I just finished intermezzo and currently reading madonna in a fur coat & chess story

I did watch the substance and longlegs over the weekend while recovering from the flu

what have you been up to? any interesting books or tv shows or movies lately?

[gabriestat]

started reading madonna in a fur coat hopefully i don't kill myself