Sabahattin Ali (1907–1948) is a poet and prose writer, a classic of modern Turkish literature. The novel “Madonna in a Fur Coat” (1940) is the story of Raif Efendi, the offspring of a wealthy Ottoman family, who, by the will of fate, turned into a petty employee, a typical “little man” of Turkey in the first half of the 20th century. A significant part of the novel is the hero's diary - the story of Raif-efendi's life in Turkey and Germany, his love for the German artist Maria Puder, spiritual searches and torments. The hero's life in Europe takes place against the backdrop of a masterfully portrayed Germany of the period after the defeat in the First World War. The author of the novel deduced many bright, psychologically accurate types of Germans and Turks of the 1920s-1930s (the writer himself lived in Germany for several years).