THE NEWEST LIVES OF HARRY LIME OR PRAISE TO THE THIRD MAN

Kurtz first appeared in Joseph Conrad's famous novel Heart of Darkness, then appeared in Orson Welles' (or Graham Greene's) The Third Man. As you know, Conrad's is the work that commemorates the "horror" of colonialism. According to one interpretation, Kurtz represents the unreasonable, impossible desires, asymmetrical demands of the unconscious in Heart of Darkness. It is in relation to/with the other in an inverted value system. Even though the result is "horror", there is room for the other/other in this work, there is still an outside, another/other in the Heart of Darkness. For the body of the subaltern is what mediates the colonial master's relation to himself; His body tortured, exploited, destroyed…

But in the Third Man, everything happens at the conscious level, the desire has become rational. There is no longer room for anything but appearances, so there is no other, or everyone is someone else. Or, as Baudrillard puts it, everyone is a mutant. And in a world like this, Kurtz's downfall is, of course, to play the violin in a bar. What ultimately kills children is lack of medicine or disease, not war!

Harry Lime is the "poet" of this world, of modern times, our world where evil has become transparent and ordinary; rather, he is a modern traveler who collects honey from every “flower” in our world where good and evil, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly are indistinguishable…

Here are the newest lives of a cult character, from the pen of Tayfun Pirselimoğlu…

Publisher: İthaki Publications
Print Year: 2012
Page Count: 136 pages
Language: Turkish
Barcode: 9786053752509