Turk roman, oyku ve oyun yazari Resat Nuri Guntekin'in olum yildonumu (7 Aralik 1956)
"Istanbullu bir subayin yetim kizi olan Feride, kucuk yasta annesini kaybetmistir; yanina gonderildigi babaannesinin de olumu uzerine 'Notre Dame de Sion' Fransiz yatili okulunda okur. Yaramazliklari yuzunden arkadaslari, okulda, ona “Calikusu” adini takarlar. Teyzesinin yakisikli oglu Kamran ile birbirlerini severler ve nisanlanirlar. Feride, dugun gunu, bir kadinin getirdigi mektuptan Kamran’in Isvicre’de iken Munevver adinda hasta bir kizla iliskisi oldugunu, ona evlenme sozu verdigini ogrenir, her seyi yuzustu birakip kacar. Anadolu’da ogretmenlik yaparak Kamran’i unutmak isteyen Feride, Anadolu’nun cesitli yerlerinde ogretmenlik yapar, idealist bir egitimcidir ancak gittigi yerlerde guzelligi basina bela olur; hakkinda cesitli dedikodular cikar.Ilk ogretmenlik deneyimi, Zeyniler koyunde evlat edinip yanina aldigi Munise’ye butun sevgisini verir. Bu koyde Doktor Hayrullah Bey ile tanisir. Munise’nin kuspalazina yakalanip olmesinden sonra hastalanan Feride, Hayrullah Bey ile kalir. Halkin dedikodusu uzerine onunla kagit uzerinde evlenirler."
"Feride is the orphaned daughter of an army officer, and as a teenager attends Lycee Notre Dame de Sion in the winter, and stays with one of her late mother’s sisters during the summer holidays. She is given the nickname “the Wren” during her time at school for her vivacity and mischief, two characteristics considered unusual and even a bit inappropriate for Muslim girls at that time. She gets engaged to her charming cousin, Kamran, whom she leaves the night before their wedding, upon discovering that he has been unfaithful to her. She runs away from home to become a teacher in Anatolia, although she remains desperately in love with Kamran. She is forced to move from town to town several times during her first three years as a teacher, as a result of the incompetence of officials, the malice of colleagues and the unwanted attention she gets from men because of her beauty and her lively manner. Meanwhile, she adopts a little girl called Munise, finds out that Kamran has married the woman he had cheated on Feride with, and develops a friendship with Hayrullah Bey, an elderly military doctor who treats Feride with fatherly affection. At the end of these three years, Munise dies and Feride is forced to resign from her post and marry the doctor because of the rumors about her “indecent behavior.”
"Ben, her seye ragmen seninle mesut olabilirdim. Evet, her seye ragmen seviliyordum, sevildigimi de bilmiyor degildim; fakat bu, bana kafi gelmedi. Istedim ki cok, pek cok sevileyim, kendi sevdigim kadar degilse bile -cunku buna imkan yok- ona yakin sevileyim. Bu kadar sevilmeye benim hakkim var miydi?"
"Nevertheless, I could be happy with you. Nevertheless, I was loved and I knew that I loved. But this is not enough. I wanted to be loved very, very much. If not as much as I loved myself - it was not possible - at least approximately so. I had a right to want such love?"
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