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Tahsin Yücel (1933–2016) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, critic, translator, academic, and a leading figure in the study of semiotics in Turkey. Skyscraper imagines a near-future Istanbul where law, property, urban ambition, and private power become inseparable. Its speculative premise serves satire rather than technological spectacle: institutions are pushed far enough to reveal the habits and inequalities already present in ordinary life. Readers interested in political fiction will find a sharp argument about justice and the market; those coming from literary theory can watch how signs of status, progress, and modernity are turned against themselves. Skyscraper introduces Yücel's irony, disciplined structure, and habit of testing public ideas through individual desire and contradiction.
