BİR YAZ İLİŞKİLERİ ROMANI: TARQUINIA’NIN KÜÇÜK ATLARI
A SUMMER RELATIONSHIP NOVEL: THE LITTLE HORSES OF TARQUİNA

Summary/Abstract: The Little Horses of Tarquina by Marguerite Duras is the expression of inquiry of the emotional ties of two couples, one of which has two children and the other one is childless. They spend their holidays near seaside in Italy where the heat is felt very strongly. That is especially the existence of couple in the novel which makes these emotional ties questioned. Except for these two couples, other three characters of the novel are Sara and Jacque’s maid named Jeanne, Diana and Adam. It is a place where everything is so sluggish that even an evening breeze cannot cool this unendurable heat. The numbness falls down on everybody and everywhere that even loves have to adjust to this numbness. The characters of the novel who are oppressed by the burning weather cannot even succeed in going to Etrüsk in Tarquinia to see frescos which show little horses. Any suitable day for anyone cannot be arranged in any way to go to that place far away a few kilometers. The sluggishness is dominant inside the heroes. In this holiday resort in which relationships are established and ended, any kind of love story, any kind of drama can’t demolish this sluggishness and laziness that penetrate the time and place. Even the result of the death of a poor boy who is responsible for picking up mines and a love which is about to begin isn’t enough or can’t be enough to change sweltry and tiring environment. This sweltry and sluggish weather is so dominant inside the characters that it has gone beyond the feeling of emptiness and slackness. The laziness and sluggishness caused by the weather are covered by the events that have no results. The plot is slowed down by the looseness felt in the summer, and silently but deeply questions this loose case and traumatic relationships between the characters of the fiction.

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