YAZIDAKİ YAS: BİR ÖLÜNÜN DEFTERİ
THE MOURNING IN WRITING: BİR ÖLÜNÜN DEFTERİ

Summary/Abstract: In her book titled Death in Quotation Marks (2010), Svetlana Boym traces the death enclosed in parentheses between writing and life and follows the footsteps of the writer who metaphorically commits suicide within the text. Mourning holds a significant place in the works of Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, who had to navigate life with a pervasive sense of loss at many points and pioneered the development of the literature of his era through the novels and stories he wrote. In his early work Bir Ölünün Defteri (1892), the protagonist Vecdi finds himself torn between giving up on life and quitting writing. As he writes about his losses, he immerses himself in his inner world and encounters the loneliness he tries to escape. He struggles with the dilemmas of living within the quotation marks around the words "life" and "death," deciding between writing and ending his life, and dealing with the mourning in a letter left by his father. In the process, he attempts to annihilate his own identity through the writing in his own diary. This article examines the relationship between writing, which is a factor that brings the mourning of the lost to life in the text, the metaphorical death of the writer, and the literary suicide created by the protagonist through writing.

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