AYAŞLI İLE KİRACILARI ROMANIYLA AYIŞIĞINDA “ÇALIŞKUR” HİKÂYESİNDE TOPLUM TEMSİLİ OLARAK APARTMAN
THE APARTMENT AS A REPRESENTATION OF SOCIETY IN THE NOVEL AYAŞLI İLE KİRACILARI AND THE STORY AY IŞIĞINDA “ÇALIŞKUR”

Summary/Abstract: This article will focus on the thesis that the structure of the apartment is used as a representation of society in Memduh Şevket Esendal’s novel Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları and Haldun Taner’s long story Ay Işığında “Çalışkur.” It will be emphasized that the authors, through the stories of people who live together yet in separate flats, aim to portray the human landscape of the country by choosing the structure of the apartment as the space for their work, and while Memduh Şevket Esendal displays the social change in the first ten years of the Republic, Haldun Taner reflects the change in Turkey throughout the 1950’s. In addition, the article puts forward that this configuration of space determines the formal structure of the works. It will be shown that the authors advance the moral corruption that they have observed in a part of the society within the framework of a critique of modernity.

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