* Kitap Adı : I, Hoca Nasreddin, Never Shall I Die * Yan Başlık : A Thematic Analysis of Hoca Stories * Dili : İngilizce * Yayınevi : Indiana University (Turkish Studies Series) * Yazar : Boratav,Pertev Naili | Başgöz,İlhan * Basım Yılı : 1998 * Basım Yeri : Indiana * ISBN : 1-878318-09-12 * Toplam Sayfa : 166 * Arşiv : Yok

One day, the Hoca and his son came upon a funeral procession on the road. A poor woman was screaming and crying behind the door of her house: "Oh, son! Every day you ate my delicious food. You slept in a warm bed under your own warm quilt. Now they are taking you to a house where there is no food or drink, no quilt, no bed. There is not even a straw mat in that place." Hearing the cries of the woman, the Hoca's son turned to his father and said, "Hey father, I guess they're taking him to our house."

"I, Nasreddin Hoca, Never Shall I Die" is the first objective analysis of the stories about Nasreddin Hoca, a famous humorous figure in Turkish folklore and popular culture whose jokes are known throughout the world.

This book is the collaboration of two well-known scholars in the field of Turkish folklore. Until his retirement in 1977, the late Pertev N. Boratav taught Turkish folklore at the Centre National de la Recherch Scientifique and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Boratav's contributions to the book include a bibliographic survey of manuscripts and books about Nasreddin Hoca, an essay that examines the spread of the Hoca tradition around the world and the problem of the cultural origin of the stories, and a collection of 133 anecdotes about Nasreddin Hоса.

Boratav's student, İlhan Başgöz, is Professor Emeritus of Turkish Studies at Indiana University. In a wide-ranging and original introduction, Başgöz analyzes the principal themes of the Hoca stories in their historical and cultural contexts, utilizing all the known major manuscript collections of the stories from the sixteenth century to the present.