İki yazar ve bir sürgün kenti: Özlü ve Livaneli’de Stockholm
Two authors and a city of exile: Stockholm in Özlü and Livaneli

Summary/Abstract: Sweden opens its gates to the democracy warriors from different countries upon Russia’s invasion of Finland, its need for qualified labour force with the improvement in economy, and political unsteadiness in Middle East and Eastern Europe. Many intellectuals who take refuge in Sweden, especially Stockholm, for various reasons, cannot find what they have expected, and live in depression, desolation, alienation, and yearning. In this sense, Zülfü Livaneli who goes to Stockholm after the diplomatic warning of March 1979, and Demir Özlü who goes there before the 12nd of September 1980, touch upon the condition and problems of immigrants in Stockholm, besides their own feelings, thoughts, and yearning in the years which they describe as exile. While Livaneli introduces Stockholm as a somber, disturbing city around the immigrant community from different roots, the city which Özlü characterize as somber as well, reminds him of Istanbul in which he was born and grew up with his intellectual identity. However, Stockholm is a city of immigrants for both of them. The characters of Livaneli are from proletariat, or at least the ones who want the supremacy of the proletarian class, while Özlü’s characters are composed from leftist intellectuals from socialites. Our study examines Stockholm and the immigrant community who lives there by focusing on Özlü’s and Livaneli’s works.

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