Madonna in a fur mantle. Ali S.

The legendary Turkish writer Sabahattin Ali became a belated triumphal discovery for European literature. In his work, he revealed the problems of the relationship of cultures and ethnic groups on the example of ordinary people, and this quickly won the location of literary bohemia.

“Madonna in a fur manto” is a piercing “remark” love story of Raif Efendi-the offspring of a rich Ottoman family, by the will of fate that turned into a small employee and German artist Maria. The action of the novel unfolds in the 1920s of the last century in Berlin and Ankara, and its atmosphere is close to the pre-war novels by Erich Maria Remarca.

A significant part of the novel is the story of the life of Raif Efendi in Turkey and Germany, the vicissitudes of his love for the German artist Maria Pudder, spiritual searches and torment. The hero’s life in Europe flows against the backdrop of the period of the period of the period of the period after the defeat in the First World War.