“This love that Aziz Bey had lived in the wrong way had propagated in all its existence, like a road without return or an incurable disease. When he wanted to make up for his error, he caught up in the wrong way, as we advance towards a dead leaf that the wind continues to project further. ” The formula appears in the first pages of l’Incident Aziz Bey of Ayfer Tunç. The writer, one of the most respected figures in contemporary Turkish literature, is unknown in France. We could only read until now Nuit d’absinthe, published in 2013 by Galaade editions. The fleeting of snow, Collection of six short stories which has just been published by Zulma, offers an overview of its talent as much as it serves as an introduction to its universe. A sailbox of the working -class districts of Istanbul, Aziz Bey considers its existence as a failure. He is hated by his father who still hosts him when he is 30 years old, his dreams of glory are already behind him, and he must fight to earn a living in a country in crisis. He consoles himself by playing the Casanova, then convinced himself that he loves a woman’s madly because she is insensitive to her charm, without realizing that the one he married loves him. He only has his pride left, which will lose it.
