Aslında ingizlizcesinde bir aliterasyon yapılmış (Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar…) ancak türkçeye çevirince o aliterasyon kaybolmuş. Kitap fıkralar eşliğinden sıfırdan başlayıp, felsefenin belli başlı konularına değiniyor: mantık, metafizik,din felsefesi, varlık, varoluşçuluk, kahroluşçuluk, vs.. Kitap çok akıcı, çok eğlenceli fıkralar var. Sıkılmadan okunuyor ki çoğu felsefe kitabı için zordur bu.. Bunu da zaten bir felsefeye giriş olarak okumak da fayda var.. Tam bir boş zaman kitabı, tavsiye ederim.

 ”The selection of Pamuk, whose recent trial for “insulting Turkishness” made headlines worldwide, continues a trend among Nobel judges of picking writers in conflict with their own governments. (…)

Pamuk, whose novels include “Snow” and “My Name Is Red,” was charged last year for telling a Swiss newspaper in February 2005 that Turkey was unwilling to deal with two of the most painful episodes in recent Turkish history: the massacre of Armenians during World War I, which Turkey insists was not a planned genocide, and recent guerrilla fighting in Turkey’s overwhelmingly Kurdish southeast.

Thirty-thousand Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in these lands, and nobody but me dares to talk about it,” he said in the interview.”

Times’da yayınlanan haberden:  

“Not one to avoid confrontation, Pamuk went on trial for telling a Swiss newspaper that Turkey was unwilling to deal with two of the most painful episodes in recent Turkish history: the massacre of Armenians during the First World War and recent guerrilla fighting in Turkey’s overwhelmingly Kurdish southeast.”

Eminim, herkes unutmuştur o sözleri..(!) Herkes biliyor ki, bu ödül tamamen siyasi gerekçelerle dağıtılıyor. Kimse ödül metnindeki “melankolik” sözlere inanmasın.

Ne yazık ki başka biri olsa, “ne mutlu” dedirtecek bu ödüle şimdi hiç sevinemiyorum…