2 books
From 1949 to 2025, Selim İleri worked as a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, critic and screenwriter whose prose explores memory, Istanbul and emotionally isolated lives. Boundless Solitude, the English translation of Yarın Yapayalnız, follows private desire and loss through a fragmented, inward narrative rather than a conventional chain of events. Its attention to recollection, class and the pressure of social expectation makes it a concentrated example of İleri’s method. Boundless Solitude is the substantive centre of his translated fiction: it shows how remembered places and cultural references become part of a character’s consciousness. İleri’s wider career across fiction, memoir and criticism gives that inwardness a larger literary conversation, especially with the Istanbul writers he read and revisited.
