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Визуализация литературных образов творчества Джона Р.Р. Толкиена

Author(s): Dmitry Lebedev Leonidovich / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2016

The theme of the report is dedicated to a number of the artists who made illustrations for the works of John Ronald Ruel Tolkien. Artists involved are Alan Lee, John Howe, Ted Nasmith, Donato Giancola, Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, Roger Garland, Cor Blok, Denis Gordeev and Sergey Juhimov and, of course, I could not help including the illustrations of Mr. Tolkien himself. In this research, I tried to define varieties in approaches of these artists and to understand which ideas they wanted to include in their own visions of Tolkien’s world. Considering these artists individually and together I found parallels between prominent and original artists and artists of the previous centuries. The report contains two different parts each of which analyses the problem in question from different perspectives. The first part concentrates on individualities of the artists, their styles and some references to their biographies. Differences and similarities in the works of the artists are analyzed in the second part. The research opens the way to determine, regarding all the specific qualities of each artist, both presence and absence of «the borders of fantasy».

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Doğumunun 100. Yili İçin Samim Kocagöz’ün Romaninda Yörükler

Author(s): Songül Taş / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 87/2016

In this study the novel named “Bir Karış Toprak” (A Span of Land) which is one of the personal and original style period novels of Samim Kocagöz was resolved with a structuralist approach and based on text. Bir Karış Toprak, is a novel of Turkmens which are known as Tahtaci or mountain Yuruks. In the novel the plot is about the intentional switching of Yuruks to settled life and their land acquisition. In the novel, the features of Yuruks and their traditions are portrayed with a vital, unique and epic narration. The difference between nomadic culture & traditions and permanent settlement, dominant point of view were portrayed by author narrator technique. The events in the novel are dated back to 1894’s. In the novel which is about a period of 11 months, Abdulhamid II. Era, namely pre-republican era is narrated. There is a deep relation between event and time. Nomadic culture is narrated with an epic style from proverbs to idioms, from reduplications to public articulations while permanent settlement is narrated with a plain style filled with stagnation and desperation. This is important in terms of evoking the stagnancy and floundering that Yuruks (who awarded the name Yuruk Timar” to Soke plain on the way back to the mountains) faced in switching to settled lifestyle.

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Peter Weiss’deki Mitik Direnme Eyleminin Halk Edebiyat Imizdaki Ortak Yanlari

Author(s): Metin Karadağ / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 86/2016

Peter Weis’s Aesthetics of Resistance, a well-known novel in the world literature, is initiated with the figure of the Heracles in Greek mythology to explain the European’s anti-despotism and quest for freedom. Uprising to the divinity and the power of infinite and fighting against the slavery are the first steps to achieve freedom. During the mythical periods, extraordinary authority never allowed the sharing of power and freedom within its hegemony. The desire to protect and sustain its absolute power has led to violence among the lower class. Oppressed masses faced with extreme oppression and violence have created their own heroes to open a path of emancipation throughout the flow of history. Weiss’s novel includes the theoretical fictional narrative which is focused on this particular socio-political context. Weiss also depicts the political and historical analyses of fascism from Ancient Greece to the Spanish Civil War and to Italian and German fascism by unveiling the historical layers of socialist thought in Europe. This novel, with its structure, is considered to be an epic masterpiece of people who rebelled against violence and repression in Europe. Although important variations among individual features, differences in the social structure, and historical conditions are reflected, we also see various considerations and examples of the struggles against exploitation and despotism in nomadic culture that are depicted in Turkish Folk Literature. Since the beginning of world literature, there have been effective works that transfer the resistance against violence, repression, and noble actions. Peter Weis’s Aesthetics of Resistance encompasses the fictional narrative based on the socio-political aspects of these propositions in the whole Europe. Examining the narrative of Turkish folk literature and folk culture, we can see many different reflections and examples of the struggles against the exploitation and despotism in the nomadic culture. This study will focus on the overlapping aspects of these two different literary genres.

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Hayatin Kaynaği – Hayatin Sonu Olarak “Ölümün Ağzi”Ve“Germinal”De Maden

Author(s): Fesun Koşmak / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 85/2016

Turkish writer İrfan Yalçın’s novel “Ölümün Ağzı” and French writer Emile Zola’s “Germinal” novels tell the workers’ struggle who put their life in danger to earn money. Employer- employee relationships and problems of workers have been infering in both of these works. Miners’ who have difficult lifes in the mines, their difficult working areas and their economical problems have been telling in these novels. Emile Zola’s “Germinal” novel is one of the famous work in the world literature. Because Zola tells in this novel miner’s life drama who are belong to the low class in society and he explains their life to the world. Also in the novel “Ölümün Ağzı” irfan Yalçın explains the difficult life of the miners in the Turkish literature. The Works of İrfan Yalçın’s “Ölümün Ağzı” and Emile Zola’s “Germinal” will be analized by using sociological method with datas of comparative literute science. Known as sociological critics argue that literature is an expression of the society in which it involves. In this context, social facts, social events and changes create the writer, work and the reader. While the literary work is examined, the sociological condition and changes must be taken into consideration. The aim of this study in which “Ölümün Ağzı” and “Germinal” will be probed, isto reveal the similarity between two literary Works that belong to different societies.

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Past Continuous: A Novel

Author(s): Bronisław Wildstein / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2017

Bronisław Wildstein is a contemporary Polish novelist and journalist. A former dissident engaged with the Solidarity labor movement, he is the recipient of many prizes including the highest award of the Republic of Poland: the Order of the White Eagle (2016). The opening pages of his novel Past Continuous (Czas niedokonany, 2011) initiate the major plot lines of the novel, a work that is autobiographical yet at the same time expresses better than any other work of fiction the societal dilemmas of late communism and postcommunism. Past Continuous, presently being translated into English is a grand narrative that brings to mind Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and Vasilii Grossman’s Forever Flowing.

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Hiç Yaşamamiş Hep Yaşayacak İki Kadin: Emma Ve Seniha

Author(s): Hanife Nalan Genc / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 90/2017

In this study, two novels, Madam Bovary, which Gustave Flaubert, one of the prominent authors, published in 1857, and Kiralık Konak by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu from the Turkish literature have been analyzed especially in terms of their main female characters. The main similarities of these novels seem to be their themes, their attitudes towards the political and social issues, and the fact that they put forward the criticism towards those periods. In terms of the narrative elements of the novels, Madam Bovary’s Emma and Kiralık Konak’s Seniha, the main female characters of the novels, are also the central characters, who direct the plotline to a considerable extent. In both novels, time and space are completely made to make sense in terms of these female characters. It is also obvious that their personal traits have become dominant factors in reflecting the themes. In this study, we will try to analyze these novels, focusing on these main female characters. It will be noticed that these two women, who are made to resemble each other in terms of their similar tendencies, their passions and desires are, in fact, unique and different because of their distinctive features.

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Eşikte Duran Bir Roman: “Aydaki Adam Tanpinar”

Author(s): Ayşe Ulusoy Tunçel / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 90/2017

With her works written as novels, stories, and even diaries, Nazlı Eray is one of the representatives of “fantastic” fiction and “magical realism” movement of Turkish literature. In her works, travels from real life across particular times and places are reflected to the reader with dreams and fantasies, a deliberate way of dreaming, and the connections between these travels are not found odd. Being fond of reading biographies, the writer gathers renowned people from her past on the plane of her narration by going beyond time and space record. Using the “fantastic element” and “self-narration” style, and autobiographic details in almost all of her works, the writer maintained her approach in the novel “Aydaki Adam Tanpınar” as well and fictionalized tragic life of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, whom she admires. Inner circle of Tanpınar also take place in the novel as characters in order to reflect the Tanpınar perception of the time. “Self-narration” style reflects the inclinations of Nazlı Eray on her books and makes it technically easier to go deep into autobiographic details. This novel of Eray contains Eray’s childhood and youth memories and 1960’s Istanbul in gloom of black and white photographs. Tanpınar’s understanding of monolithical time intersects with Nazlı Eray’s fantastic novels, which have many leaps in time and space. Furthermore, we can say that Eray could empathize with her colleague Tanpınar in terms of literary point of view.

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Peyami Safa’nin Romanlarinda Dünya Savaşlarina Yönelik Tahliller

Author(s): Gökay Durmuş / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 90/2017

War is an important phenomenon reflecting on Peyami Safa’s novels. Having witnessed the transition from the Empire to nation-state, and Second World War later, Safa could not alienate himself and his novel characters from these processes. Hence, the study first dwells on how the concept of war was defined by Peyami Safa, and what kinds of meanings were attributed to this concept. Then, the longing for the previous state of the country prior to war in the works was dealt with through the heroes. The reasons transforming this longing into frustration through the end of the war are mainly traced in the sections where Safa’s own opinions are expressed. Theoretical analyses regarding the war ends with the analyses on the poverty and degeneration, which are the results of the war. Peyami Safa also fictionalized shooting-war scenes to support theoretical analyses. In the study, these are analyzed under the categories of people at the fronts, situations at the front, and the subject of the war at the other side referring to behaviors of the opponent soldiers. It is believed that Peyami Safa’s efforts to keep these scenes vivid and current validity of his theoretical analyses are the reasons keeping him on the agenda even today.

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Jean Valjean’in İkilemi Ve Faydaci Etik

Author(s): Fatma Dore / Language(s): English Issue: 90/2017

This work is an evaluation, through the criterion of utilitarian ethics, of the resolution of an intense moral dilemma in Victor Hugo’s 1862 masterpiece, Les Misérables. The dilemma is faced by the main protagonist Jean Valjean. Valjean, a former convict, has redeemed his life and has become mayor of a French city under an assumed name. Years later, he learns that someone else has been erroneously arrested as him, and Valjean is faced with the choice of letting this man be convicted and sent to a horrible punishment in the galleys, or revealing his identity and facing reimprisonment himself in order to save him. In doing the latter, he acts according to the demands of deontological ethics, for which the author of the novel explicitly commends him. Nevertheless, this work avers that in making the latter choice, Valjean, in terms of utilitarian ethics, acts immorally. It affirms this by showing, through the writings of Jeremy Bentham, that in morally evaluating an action in utilitarian ethical terms, the happiness and unhappiness caused to everyone affected by his act must be quantified and balanced against each other. Due to the effect that the loss of their benevolent mayor has on other characters, the saving of one individual cannot be seen to be productive of the greatest good. This work then examines possible objections to this evaluation and through writers on ethics and Bentham himself, shows that these objections do not invalidate the central argument of the work.

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Edebiyat Sosyolojisi Açisindan Abbas Sayar’in Romanlari

Author(s): Nilüfer İlhan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 81/2015

Taking advantage of many different disciplines to examine literary works, presents various opportunities to researchers for better understanding both author and his work. Sociology of literature, which explain the author and his work with social data, also want to make a social archeology by the author and his work, by aiming to bring together literature and sociology on the same axis. Consideration of certain themes in a certain period with a study performed in this manner, is important in terms of understanding the mentality of the society as well as it provides the author and his work come into prominence. Sociology of literature states that work of art should be considered not only as an aesthetic work but also as a social phenomenon. Because, society’s social, political and cultural conditions have a decisive role on birth of the author and emergence of his work in the community’s. In this context, Abbas Sayar (1923-1999), who began to literature with poetry and then directed to novel, makes enable to evaluate his novels in context of sociology of literature by looking to Middle Anatolian peasants, which are mentioned in his novels, with Zizek’s words ‘a skewed view’. Sayar, brings a different understanding to novels with village rhetoric which has discussed since the Tanzimat but became popular after 1950 and resemble each other by writing with an ideological-utopian insight. The author discusses people’s sociology as someone who knows them not from the outside but from inside, as well as considers the themes that remind the attitude in previously written novels with village rhetoric. In present study, sociological examination is conducted by focusing on ‘author’ and ‘work’ elements of four elements identify as “author”, “work”, “reader” and “media / distribution” in literature sociology method of Robert Escarpit. After determining the outlines of peasant characters, in novels, the village’s social, political and cultural structures are demonstrated.

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Virginia Woolf’un “Orlando”Sunda Cinsiyet Dönüşümü

Author(s): Fulya Çelik / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 84/2015

Throughout the history of art, from the Ancient Greek to the present day, sexual personas create a certain paradigm with their own passwords. From time to time, the things told about sexual personas were limited and censored or they caused a lot of disturbance. With the loss of the impact of religion on art and society, these personas who are original creations of a multi-layered and complicated accumulation have been revived and they have been the inspiration for many artists. Bringing his subconscious and unconscious attitudes together, the artist has focused on sexsual personas. The identity, provides external attitude to come in sight and the “anima and animus” forming the essence of inner attitude have come together in Virginia Woolf’s fragmental character Orlando. Author, avoids tackling sexuality and feelings arising from sexuality in her novels has this time made a change and handled love passion in her novel called Orlando intensively. It is said that Orlando is a half man-half woman, an androgynous, reflects the lesbian tendencies of the author. In this study, the gender transformation of the protagonist of Woolf’s work Orlando adorned by fantastic elements will be explained via social gender roles. In order to determine the perception of gender and sexual identity of the author who considers the male-female dichotomy with ironic and paradoxical approach we will benefit from queer theory which redifines identity differences thoroughly and considers their social, intellectual, historical and cultural aspects and we will also benifit from the terms “anima and animus” which take part as anthropomorphic archetypes of the subconscious in teaching of Jung.

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Bir Zamanlar Yafa: Enver Hâmid’in Yafa Sabah Kahvesi Hazirliyor Romaninda Filistin’de Günlük Hayat Ve Kültür

Author(s): F. Betül Üyümez / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 80/2014

In his novel Jaffa Prepares Morning Coffee which was published in 2012 and nominated for The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2013, Palestinian novelist, poet and critic Anwar Hamed aims to show Palestinians’ daily life before the Nakba (the Catastrophe for Palestinians) in 1948. After living long years in Hungary where he had gone for education, he moved to London in 2014, since then, he has been living there and working for BBC Arabic service. Through a love story between two young Palestinians come from different social status in Jaffa in the 1940s, Anwar Hamed purposes to revive the past and the memories of the lost homeland. He presents culture and traditions of Palestine, away from the image that has been portrayed to the world in the literature and the media. In the novel, food culture, travels, weddings, entertainments, religious days and holidays, women, men, rich and poor people, Muslims, Christians and Jews are described vividly. But at the end of the novel, Hamed strangely connects the negative sides of the Palestinian social structure to Osman Ghazi’s dream and thus Ottomans’s rule in the Middle East. This paper will focus on Palestinian people’s daily life and traditional culture in Jaffa and Beit Dajan before the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 (before Nakba) and the Ottoman perception in that area; then these data will be examined through the sociological and the historical perspective as it is displayed in the novel of Anwar Hamed, Jaffa Prepares Morning Coffee.

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Discipline and Murder: Panoptic Pedagogy and the Aesthetics of Detection in J.G. Ballard’s Running Wild

Author(s): Cornelia Macsiniuc / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2017

My essay proposes a reading of J.G. Ballard’s 1988 novella Running Wild as a cautionary crime story, a parable about the self-fulfilling prophecies of contemporary urban fears and about the “prisons” they create in a consumerist, technology- and media-dominated civilization. Interpreted in the light of Foucault’s concept of panopticism, Ballard’s gated community as a crime setting reveals how a disciplinary pedagogy meant to obtain “docile bodies,” masked under the socially elitist comfort of affluence and parental care, “brands” the inmate-children as potential delinquents and ultimately drives them to an act of “mass tyrannicide.” Ballard uses the murder story as a vehicle for the exploration of the paradoxical effects of a regime of total surveillance and of mediated presence, which, while expected to make “murder mystery” impossible, allows for the precession of the representation to the real (crime). The essay also highlights the way in which Ballard both cites and subverts some of the conventions of the Golden Age detective fiction, mainly by his rejection of the latter’s escapist ethos and by the liminal character of his investigator, at once part of a normalizing panoptic apparatus and eccentric to it, a “poetic figure” (Chesterton) relying on imagination and “aestheticizing” the routines of the detection process.

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Üç Çarin Hizmetinde Bir İstanbullu

Author(s): E. Zeynep Günal / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 79/2014

Fyodor A. Emin is one of the most interesting writers of the 18th century Russian literature, because when he came to Russia and began to live there it was not well known where he was born and who he was. The famous writer and journalist Novikov and the publisher Kopnin who were his contemporaries tried to write Emin’s biography on the basis of his works and on what he had told them. But the Soviet researchers Beshenkovsky and Arzumanova found several documents in the Russian government archives, which proved that Emin’s ancestors were from Poland and they migrated to Ottoman Turkey. According to these documents, Emin, who had to become a muslim, couldn’t continue to live in Istanbul as an Otoman soldier because of some uncertain reasons and went to Russia. He lived in Russia until the end of his life serving three tsars. Emin as an immigrant was always in need of money and in debt. Several times he wrote official letters to the tsars about his insufficient salaries. At the end Catherine the Great lent him money, and asked to be notified about his every future translation, which would pay back the debt, given by her. Besides, Emin tried to find a kind of solution in the literature life by publishing novels, which were very attractive for the Russian people. In spite of his short literature life and learning Russian quite late, Emin had managed to become a very productive and popular adventure-romance novel writer among the ordinary people. Today Emin from Istanbul is considered to be one of the founders of the Russian novel.

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Cahit Uçuk’un “Türk İkizleri” Romaninda Sözvarliği

Author(s): Yıldız Yenen Avcı / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 78/2014

“The Turkish Twins” novel which written by Cahit Uçuk, have been included famous “Twins Series” in 1956 and also honor list in 1958 competition, is an important literary work. In this study, “The Turkish Twins” novel was examined in terms of basics (reduplications, idioms, mimetic words, routines, regional words and proverbs) constitute Turkish vocabulary and was reached the following conclusions: Author mentioned the most reduplications and at least proverb in the work. Reduplications generally were constituted repetition of same word. In spite of that there are examples (constituted with mimetic words, created by words meanings of which are close together or antonym) having different constructions. When reduplications are analyzed in terms of task, it is seen that they are used the most being adverb function and complete meaning of the sentence (subject, article, object) in various way. Idioms are the second vocabulary which often used by the author. There are many examples related to folks cultural texture of people, their work life, mind and ratiocination power in the novel. As well as author gives a places idioms commonly used by the public, extends the limits of vocabulary with original usage own produced. As for the author’s another remarkable feature for use idioms resorts changing the words in some uses. Mimetic words and uses which are exemplary local dialect usage often were given a place in the work which described rural people who don’t rupture with nature. As for routines which are determinative human relations in community life; are prime examples Anatolian human’s commitment to kindness, indulging in respect and heart. As for Messages which the author wants to give between the lines; tried to be placed on a solid foundation with proverbs. Obtained by scanning the light of these findings, it is possible to say that “The Turkish Twins” novel is a work rich in vocabulary.

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Popüler Roman Ve Melodram Kavramlari Çerçevesinde Muazz Ez Tahsin Berkand Ve Sarmaşik Gülleri

Author(s): Ayfer Yılmaz / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 77/2014

In this study, Muazzez Tahsin Berkand’s novel Roses of Ivy, a popular melodrama around the concepts of the novel and tried to evaluate. With the broad general meaning of the popular novels to academic reader, the reader wonder, excitement, and aims to arouse feelings of pity, full-speed for consumption, based on a simple cases of the events and persons set out sharply, by chance did not include woven literary products. Popular novels of the Tanzimat period, such as occurs in other types of novels. At the II Constitutional period Ahmet Midhat, Ahmet Hüseyin Rahmi and popular works are the first examples of the novel. Mehmet Celal, Abdullah Zühdüand Vecihi writers considered in this group. Examples of popular fiction in the later periods of the type of popular novel continuing the second period of Republic, readers young woman’s affections, while Kerime Nadir and Muazzez Tahsin, Mükerrem Kamil, Cahit Uçuk, Selami İzzet, Aka Gündüz, Mahmut Yesari, Güzide Sabri, Suat Derviş gives the example of writers like. Greek composition, melody, melody which means “melo” and “theatrical event, which is the inclusion of life” drama “with the use of the words appeared in a theatrical term. Later, as the term was used for cinema. Clearly the people and the mold are separated into good and bad melodramas designed and “immature audiences” are addressed. Thus, as the authors of the audience and the film makers “fatigue” and “profitable becomes a cause. Turkish literature, popular fiction author, Muazzez Berkand Tahsin , 1933 in the “You and Me” is his first novel, introducing Berkand’ı. Love Storm 1935, 1936, “Spring Flower”, 1937, “Endless Night” is named after novels serialized in newspapers before the printed book form. “A young girl’s Novel,” “He and his Daughter,” “Mystery of the Mountains”, “Nightingale’s Nest”, “Mualla”, “A strange marriage” with novels of Stefan Zweig “Unknown Letters of a Woman” and Irène Némirovsky’nin “Jazabel” translated his works.

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‘Kızıl Konağın Rüyası’nda Karşılıksız Aşk: Jia Rui’nin Akıbeti

Author(s): Gökhan Kırılen / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 76/2013

The “Dream of Red Chambers” also known with its original name “Hong Lou Meng” has a unique place in Chinese history of literature. Along with the “Journey to the West”, “Outlaws of the Marsh” and the “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, “Dream of Red Chambers” belongs to the very well known “four classical novels” in China. Among them, the “Dream of Red Chambers” occupies the highest place in terms of subject matter, style and richness of its language use. The most subtle and exhaustive depictions of traditional Chinese society also can be seen in this voluminous work. Social relations, ceremonies, etiquette, education, love and sex are among the prominent themes in the novel. Especially the relations between women and men displayed very complex features throughout the book. The women are depicted in detail for their beauty and manner and for the roles they played. Lady Feng (Anka) is one of those women who took part in such complex relations. She is also an outstanding figure among the woman characters and in a narrow sense, she displays an example for the “chaste women” of the gentry. In the 11th chapter, a coincidental encounter between her and Jia Rui brings about a story subtly criticizing some traditional values and morality of the 18th century in China. On the other hand, Jia Rui is a youngster who is short in such moral ambitions and has a strong sexual desire for her. In the end, his untamed desire led him to his collapse. The chapter concluded with a passage relating his hallucinative plight as a reflection of earlier events.

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İffet’te Emile Zola Ve Naturalizm Etkisi

Author(s): Özge Soylu Bozdağ / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 76/2013

Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar is known as one of the main representatives of the naturalist and realist trend in Turkish Literature. There are traces of Naturalism in Hüseyin Rahmi Gurpinar’s high philosophy that he tried to convey to readers by means of novels. In this article, it will be discussed the impact of Naturalism in his novel called Iffet (Chastity). In his work called Experimental Novel, Zola says: “... we are not portraying just to portray, not just for joy. We accept that human cannot be apart from his dress, house, city and country, and he is the sum of all.” When we look at the novels of Hüseyin Rahmi Gurpinar, we can say that a similar view determines the events in story. For example, in his novel named Iffet, all kinds of bad things that happens to İffet and her family are the products of the community and the circumstances they live in. In this study we will firstly examine how Naturalism is defined in western literature, and what are the diffrerent approaches for it, and we will discuss Emile Zola’s Naturalism perspective. After drawing the theoretical framework, this study aims to discuss the affect of Naturalism on his novel Iffet, and some conflicts with Naturalism in that novel.

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Refik Halit Karay’in Anahtar Adli Romaninda Mekân İmgeleri

Author(s): Esra Sazyek / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 73/2013

In his novel Anahtar (The Key) (1949), Refik Halit Karay deals with the dilemmas which occured as a result of changes brought about by the modernization of society, through the couple Kenan and Perihan. While they were happily living in their old, small, and uncomfortable home, they drift apart upon moving into a big and impresive home, as a result of imprevements in their financial condition. In this paper, the aforementioned novel is analyzed according to the approach used by Gaston Machelard in his The Poetics of Space. Thus, houses we split into rooms for privacy, drawers or closets we use to hide things that we do not want anybody to see, stairs that lead to both darkness and light are all reflections of our inner worlds. Therefore, the places we possess are not ours, they are us. Even if we leave, we carry our homes with us like a tortoise, and as Assmann has said, we keep our memories of home alive through certain symbols that we code into our minds. For this reason, the key that she keeps is an important tool for Perihan who uses little symbols or repetitive actions in order not to forget her past -like other stimulants as “scent” “sound” “light” and “dream”- which provides spatial and chronic voyages to her old memories. In contrast for Kenan, whose connection to the past is lacking, it is an expression of sin. Anahtar can also be read as a symbolic text, via the personal reminders aimed at the past in the form of mind codes, of the author’s opposition to the social status quo that is the result of a new regime, conveyed through the perspective of a family.

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Biyografik Romanlardan Hareketle “Kişisel Tarih Toplumsal Tarih midir? Sorunsalı Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme

Author(s): Muhsine Helimoğlu Yavuz / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 69/2012

Yönetmenliğini Alan Corau’nun yaptığı ve 17. Yüzyıl Fransız Barok Müziğinin oluşumuna katkıda bulunmuş ve viyolaya yedinci teli eklemiş olan, viyola ustası Saint Colombe’un yaşamını konu alan, “Tous es Matins du Monde” (Dünyanın Bütün Sabahları) adlı Fransız filmi şu sözlerle başlıyordu: “Eğer doğru zamanda ve doğru yerde doğmuşsanız hayat güzel bir senfonidir. Eğer yanlış zamanda ve yanlış bir yerde doğmuşsanız, hayat bir cehennemdir.”

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