Reflections on Sezai Karakoç’s Opinions About the Genre of Story in His Works
Sezai Karakoç was one of the leading poets of the İkinci Yeni poem and also produced important works in terms of story art. Although he had no intention of being known as a storyteller, his stories, just like his plays, can be shown among the exemplary texts of metaphysical sensibility in Turkish li...
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| Language: | English |
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Istanbul University Press
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Türkiyat Mecmuası |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/3BB6539B390942A0A21B8AFD72404F13 |
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| Summary: | Sezai Karakoç was one of the leading poets of the İkinci Yeni poem and also produced important works in terms of story art. Although he had no intention of being known as a storyteller, his stories, just like his plays, can be shown among the exemplary texts of metaphysical sensibility in Turkish literature. The formal and thematic orientations he revealed in his stories exactly match the sensitivity in his poetry. Karakoç presented examples in his stories thatcould be an alternative to both existentialist literature and socialist realist literature. Sezai Karakoç presented a different perspective to the art of stories, not only with his stories but also with his views about stories. His approaches to stories can be found both in his articles titled “Kasaba Edebiyatı” and “Romanla Hikâyenin Arası Açılıyor,” as well as among the lines of his intellectual corpus. These approaches form the intellectual basis of his stories. He made proposals that drew on local sources while also taking into account universal artistic trends. He put these proposals into practice in his stories as well as in his poems. If one were to consider Sezai Karakoç to have had a thesis he conceptualized as Diriliş, his stories are among the parts that complete this thesis. If one accepts that the resurrection thesis is also a literary movement, the reflections of this movement in the art of storytelling need to be revealed. In this context, this article will compile Sezai Karakoç’s views on stories that occur between the lines of his books while at the same time attempting to show how he had put these views into practice in his own stories. |
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| ISSN: | 2651-3188 |