We had an interview with the author Hakan Bıçakcı on his novel “Uyku Sersemi”

“A city growing and metamorphosing like cancer, and a young editor who wants to write a book about it. Houses, streets, bookstores that were “here” yesterday and have all turned into memories… The hum of construction coming from the bottom… A hero who loses his perception of reality day by day, unable to recognize his surroundings, his voice and finally his face…
“Uyku Sersemi”, a guide to a lost city. A diary of destruction.”

Our 11th grade students had an online interview on Thursday, December 7 with Hakan Bıçakcı, one of the most important writers of contemporary Turkish Literature, who was awarded the Cevdet Kudret Literature Prize in 2020, on the novel Uyku Sersemi, which they read and analyzed as part of their Turkish language and literature course.

We would like to thank our guest Hakan Bıçakcı once again for his valuable participation and contributions to our interview, in which many topics such as “lost values”, “history buried by urban transformation”, “alienation”, “loneliness in the modern age”, “nostalgia”, “problems of distorted urban life” were discussed based on his life, his writing adventure and his book Uyku Sersemi.