Bir Kütüphanecinin Biyografik Romanı: Fakir Baykurt’un Kaleminden Mustafa Güzelgöz
A Librarian’s Biographic Novel: Mustafa Güzelgöz from Perspective of Fakir Baykurt

Summary/Abstract: A biographical novel is a literary work that is fictionalized within the framework of a slice from real life. It tries to present, adopt or depict real people as fictional characters by using narrative techniques that belonging to this literary genre. Fakir Baykurt’s Eşekli Kütüphaneci is an example of a biographical novel that fictionalizes Mustafa Güzelgöz’s life, who is known to be one of the important names in the history of Turkish librarianship with his mobile librarianship works that he carried out in the provincial town of Ürgüp. As a biographical novelist, Baykurt brings Güzelgöz to the axis of biographical fiction and presents him with his individual identity. The writer identifies himself with the novel character within the context of his life and thought. The aim of this research is to examine the biographical fiction written by Fakir Baykurt within the fiction-reality relationship context based on the objective-scientific biographies and interviews with Mustafa Güzelgöz. In Eşekli Kütüphaneci, Güzelgöz lived in Ürgüp with his family and his librarianship activities were included in the fiction in detail using the reality principle framework. The period, as witnessed by the protagonist of the biographical novel, was handled in various aspects where social and cultural structures were reflected. In this novel and in line with Mustafa Güzelgöz’s life, emphasis is placed on librarianship studies in Turkey; however, as a fictional document. Eşekli Kütüphaneci, as a librarian biography, gains importance as an alternative narrative regarding the development stages of Turkish librarianship history in a fictional plane.

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