Footsteps Library Book Gathering Onlar Savaşırken, Bekir Eliçin

The book gatherings of the Footsteps Library, established for the Istanbul Biennial in arthereistanbul, are starting. Every Wednesday every two weeks, we will talk, contemplate, and read for an afternoon dedicated to a selected book from the library. The selected book for the gathering on Wednesday, October the 5th is Bekir Eliçin's 1978 novel, Onlar Savaşırken (While They Were Fighting), in which he tells about those who made profiteering by taking advantage of the apocalyptic environment created by the war during the First World War days. The novel based on Eliçin’s own experiences not only tells the universal story of those who seek the way to become rich by turning the destruction of the war in their favor, but also presents a view of the life that went on behind the frontline during the war.

The writer's granddaughter, journalist Işın Eliçin, will be the guide for the day dedicated to…