Başka Bir Modernlik Hâli: Fikret Adil’in Eserlerinde İstanbul’un Bohem Hayatı
Another State of Modernity: Bohemian Life of Istanbul in the Works by Fikret Adil

Summary/Abstract: The present study examines bohemian life through narrations Asmalımescit 74, Intermezzo, and Avare Gençlik by Fikret Adil in terms of containing another modernity possibility. The texts by Fikret Adil, which define bohemian life in Istanbul in the 1930s, are chosen to demonstrate the differences between dominant modernization moves and the modernization offered by bohemians expressed in those texts. It is clear from the texts that bohemian which opposes the values of dominant modernization and seems to be its antithesis, expresses an advanced modernization possibility. A friend of significant authors of that time like Peyami Safa and Necip Fazıl, Fikret Adil bears a witness that the world of art lives ignoring official modernization moves and avoiding central orientations. This study argues why they perceived this as a main value rather than a drift. Therefore, the present study concludes that modernization is not a monotype but has different possibilities that should be seized.

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