Literary Aphorisms

Literary Aphorisms include a long interview with Eroğlu and sentences quoted from fourteen novels. Words about love, literature, life, questioning what is happening and restless … An Eroğlu book that shows the author’s inner world, his resistance to the issues, his anger and excitement, his literary loneliness and his passion for work.

For almost forty years, Mehmet Eroglu portraying revolutionaries, the zeitgeist of the recent period, 1968’s, dying, remaining and resisting dreams. He says brave and new things; breathlessly, skilfully, and with an appetite… He writes novels of consciousness, altruism and not forgetting. He depicts those who want to change the world, scoundrels that have flock around the money, the dirt, corruption, brutality, drifters, and old friends.

True writers aren’t born from the womb of their mother, but from the tip of their pen, and want to be buried in encyclopaedias instead of soil. Therefrom they try to build a sarcophagus by their writing. Their ripening is completed when they care about the praises only as much they care about condemnations.