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On Mysteries, Part 4
This is the final installment in a four-part series on Knut Hamsun’s novel “Mysteries.” The first part, which explains the plot and Nagel’s stance on life and death, the second part, which details Nagel’s relations to God and women, and the third part, which concerns his poeticisms and mystic experiences, can be found online »
On Mysteries, Part 3
This is the third installment in a four-part series on Knut Hamsun’s novel “Mysteries.” The first part, which explains the plot and Nagel’s stance on life and death, can be found online at bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr /opinions. Nagel’s rapture is not reserved for beauty, but shows its face in strange and lucid constellations: “He was in »
On Mysteries, Part 2
This is the second installment in a four-part series on Knut Hamsun’s novel “Mysteries.” The first part, which explains the plot and Nagel’s stance on life and death, can be found online at bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr /opinions. Nagel is made up of nature and visions, which are themselves full of the thick light of his own »
On “Mysteries,” Part 1
This is the first installment in a four-part series on Knut Hamsun’s novel “Mysteries.” Having read Hamsun’s “Mysteries,” I am trapped in a delicious state of complete cluelessness as to what has happened to me. The novel is fabulously mad and esoteric, with a balanced, measured way of walking through the narrative that makes »
“The Sword of Doom,” Part 2
This is the final installment in a two-part analysis of the 1966 film “The Sword of Doom.” The first part, which concerns the general plot and Ryunosuke Tsukue’s self and moral nature, is available online at bilnews.bilkent.edu.tr/opinions. Even in his active being, Ryunosuke is not human. In his final bout of insanity, he displays »
“The Sword of Doom”
Opens in a mountain pass. A dark stranger comes upon an old man, praying for death at a weathered shrine. His granddaughter is in the hills, listening for water. The stranger grants the old man his wish, and disappears into the land beyond the pass, where his father will tell him to learn to »
On Fairness
We own it all. It is just to take and just to leave, because everything we take is ours on sight. This is how we seem to have come to think, which is bewildering: we own only what we are handed arbitrarily, what is assigned to us by virtue of birth, or achievement, or »
On Civilization
This is the final part in a three-part series on civilization. The first part, which concerns morality as a way to ensure the observation of social rules set by communities to most efficiently achieve their purposes of formation, and the second, which identifies laws and justice as institutionalized means of control, can be found »