Zafer Senocak on post-Muslim society

The Turkish-born German writer Zafer Senocak analyses the role of culture in Turkish-Muslim society, which is going through a time of great upheaval. "Ultimately the closed society can only be broken open by a culture of individualisation. Such a culture challenges and transforms the community. Sooner or later this transformation finds its expression in art. Turkish novels and Turkish films are the places where the modernisation of Turkish society should manifest itself. The point is not to write a 'Muslim' novel. That would be as futile as all the other attempts to create art in the name of a religion or an ideology. Nonetheless, the psychological topography of people who are exposed to social and cultural transformation is an important subject. In a post-Muslim society, for instance, spirituality doesn't yet have an original voice."

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