Güzay ’In Bin Dilek Ağa Ci’nda Geleneğin İzleri
The Tradition Traces in Güzay’s Thousand Wishing Tree

Summary/Abstract: There is a strong relation between literature and culture which literature was born into. It is really hard to think that we can isolate art, literature and artist from the culture they live in. Because of this reason, literary works are important sources that contain a rich material for folklore and sociology can benefit from. Another aspect which should be emphasized in the literature is that it sometimes benefits from tradition. The relation between the literary culture and folk culture creates the starting point of this study. Anadolu Korku Öyküleri (Anatolian Fear Stories), which is consist of Işın Beril Tetik, Ayşegül Nergis, Demokan Atasoy, Koray Günyaşar, Galip Dursun, Kayra “Keri” Küpçü named six authors’ six stories and which is an interesting book, draws attention to the last term Turkish stories with its different style. Fear and mystery are important elements in those stories where odd people, events or circumstances in uninhabitant areas are narrated. But another important item is the beliefs of society. Fears and beliefs of Anatolian people and their pratics, are regarded another aspect in terms of facilities of modern story. With this study, the story Güzay’ın Bin Dilek Ağacı (Güzay’s Thousand Wishing Tree) by Galip Dursun, which reinterpretes the beliefs of society and modern expressions by combining them, will be studied in aspects of traditional components he uses. Similar and differing aspects of tradition and belief of society and their pratics will be emphasized in the story.

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