Author/Authors :
ŞENDERİN, Zübeyde Kırıkkale Üniversitesi - Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi - Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Yeni Türk Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı, Turkey
Abstract :
Yusuf Atılgan is the one of the most important names of the Turkish literature after 1950. Canistan is the writer’s third and the last novel which was written after Aylak Adam and Anayurt Oteli, which are of high importance in many respects as two original and well known works of Turkish novel. First of all, Yusuf Atılgan was able to write the first three chapters of the novel called “trial”, “judge” and “witness”, but he died without being able to finish the fourth and the last chapter called “accused”. Therefore, Canistan joined the unfinished novels, which are completed in the reader’s imagination, such as Aydaki Kadın (Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar) and Eylembilim (Oğuz Atay). Secondly the work aims to discuss an original issue and character. The novel tells about Selim’s meeting with Ali many years later and the killing of Ali by Selim. Selim was a son of poor family and was given as a servant to the Ali’s family, so they lived together during their childhood. Novel also examines the process which converted Selim into a cruel torturer and Ali into a victim. Selim portrays differently from the most of usual protagonists of novels from the aspects of his personality, morality and reactions. Despite that fact that the novel opened up very traumatic scene describing how Selim tortured his childhood friend, it also presents Selim as related with the behaviors and actions representing goodness, righteousness and honesty. The novel, as a whole, focuses on constructing the background that created Selim’s pathology which converted him into an anti-hero with his actions by the means of interactions with his moral, social and psychological motivations. In this article, it is aimed to examine Selim as a protagonist transformed into an anti-hero with combinations of his psychological, social attitudes in the context of existentialism and philosophy of absurdity that Yusuf Atılgan is related, by the means of searcing on fiction of the novel, too.
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Novel , Anti , hero , Character , Absurdity , Causless Action
