Erhan Bener began his literary career in 1945 with poems and short stories published in various magazines. He went on to author over thirty books, with his works often translated into foreign languages and some adapted for cinema and television. His writing delves into the complexities of human nature and societal dynamics, characterized by a distinctive narrative voice. Bener's exploration of themes through novels, plays, and stories cemented his significant contribution to literature.
Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.