Forgetting

2008 (Memoir - Interview)

Meeting her dead mother on paper, a child who had converted her pain into silence hears her own voice. Her mother’s diary entries kindle the love of literature.

İnci Aral takes a break at this point in her thirty-year involvement with literature and evaluates herself just as she does her fictional characters. A broken family, rooms shared with foster children, free boarding schools, letter, trips, cliffs, cities, songs and of course, doomed love affairs, but most of all, paper and books, loved much more passionately than anything else...

"People have to forget. But this is not forgetting. There is no forgetting," says Aral, as she lays bare her own passion for writing, and her personal and literary worlds along the way. This book offers us an insight into İnci Aral, who skilfully illuminates her own life and literature… As she wanders each and every room in her mind and heart.