İnce Memed explained

İnce Memed is a series of four epic novels written by the Turkish novelist Yaşar Kemal. The novels follow the life of Memed, the only son of a poor widow who escapes from his village in the Anatolian landowners and transforms himself into a legendary, Robin Hood-like figure, championing the landless peasants of Anatolia in their struggle against their corrupt and greedy landowners.

İnce Memed (1955), the first novel in the tetralogy,^[1] was Kemal's first published novel. Subsequent volumes of the İnce Memed saga were published in 1969, 1984 and 1987.

The tetralogy

• İnce Memed (1955); English translation: Memed, My Hawk (1961)
• İnce Memed II (1969); They Burn the Thistles (1972)
• İnce Memed III (1984)
• İnce Memed IV (1987)

Notes and References

1. Yağcı . Ahu Selin Erkul . 2022-12-21 . Memed, My Hawk, Mèmed Le Mince and İnce Memed as metonymies and rewritings . RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi . en . 31 . 1699–1708 . 10.29000/rumelide.1222103 . 2148-7782.