Selimileri’s Novel Writing and Position of Selim Ileri in Turkish Novel Cover Image

Selim İleri’nin Romanciliği Ve Türk Romanciliğindaki Yeri
Selimileri’s Novel Writing and Position of Selim Ileri in Turkish Novel

Author(s): Nesrin Mengi
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Novel, Turkish Literature, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Selim İleri; novel; Turkish literature; modernistic novel;

Summary/Abstract: Selim İleri is one of the most important writers of contemporary Turkish literature. He stand out with his life, thought world and art comprehension in addition to novels that he brought to our literature starting in the 1970s. He has turned into fictional world small bourgeois person’s individual journey in his novels uniquely and in terms of narration techniques also became an important representative of modern Turkish literature. Selim İleri, narrate subconscious of his novel characters and thereby approaches to modernistic novel. While novelist handles problems of society, he expresses psychology of individuals by using novel techniques like interior monologue, stream of consciousness and flashback. Selim İleri chooses his novel characters from urban nation. Novel characters are foregn to society. Selim İleri wrote intellectual individuals story in his first term. In other words he narates small bourgeois. Latter term, change in his novel writing, he narrates individuals from literature, art and culture history who are real persons. After investigations on method and content of author’s novel in the previous chapter, characteristic features of his novels are extracted. Also novel concept of Selim İleri who is one of modern authors of Turkish literature and his position in Turkish literature is evaluated. While we were determining contents and form properties of Selim İleri here, we aimed to report characteristics that make author so different with holistic approach and underline his modernist attitude in Turkish novel writing.

  • Issue Year: 18/2012
  • Issue No: 71
  • Page Range: 127-141
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Turkish