Tuesday, August 18, 2009

News at Eleven: What made him [Nazim Hikmet] such a threat?

One part of the answer is the content of his poetry. He railed against all of the injustices and hypocrisies of his day. His poetry denounced the bourgeoisie. It denounced war. When he eventually defected to the Soviet Union, he realized the country of his dreams did not exist. His later work was to denounce the apparatus used by the Soviet Union to "perfectionize the people"--organizations such as TASS and the KGB. He even denounced the cult of Stalin.

from Today's Zaman: ‘Romantic Communist': What made Nazim Hikmet the man he was?

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