PositiveAsymptoteThough Altan was and is principally a political writer concerned with collective governance, I Will Never See the World Again salutes the individual will, and exalts the imagination as an ultimate and ineradicable expression of freedom ... With typical defiance Altan warns the reader in a moving final chapter against ‘playing the drums of mercy’ for him. Though he may be in prison for life, he says, he is not bereft of beauty or meaning or, indeed, of life itself. All this is rendered deftly by Altan’s friend and former deputy editor at Taraf, Yasemin Çongar ... Yet Çongar captures Altan’s solitude and the highly personal quality of his writing in such a way that it is easy to forget her important role in its final expression.
