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Aylak Adam by Yusuf Atılgan
He was thinking: “In our time, a short-lived creature lives that the past centuries did not know. The person who has just come out of the cinema. The film he saw has done something to him. He is not a person who only thinks of his own self-interest. He is at peace with people. It is hoped that he will do great things. But he dies in five or ten minutes.” Yusuf Atılgan's *The Idle Man* has been one of the most beloved and most debated novels in our literature since its publication. The novel deals with the urban, idle intellectual individual, a topic that began to be discussed in our country and around the world in the early 1960s. Today, *The Idle Man*, which is now among our contemporary classics, continues to highlight intellectual issues that remain relevant.