@article{2018,title={AS AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS: THE DISCONNECTED},abstractNode={The point that existentialism reached today has a long history. Since Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit was published, avant-garde intelligentsia has started to consider existentialism as the philosophy of our era. Jaspers undertook to transmit the principles of the new philosophy to large mass of educated readers in Germany. During and after the war existentialism movement wend its way to the cultural sphere of the West and achieved great success in France and America with leading German existentialists and Husserl who pioneered them. –This success is not only limited with United States, but also includes Latin American countries.- Are all of these temporary enthusiasm that will fade away in couple of years or a new philosophy which will really break new ground? The answer depends on to what extent the new philosophy –existentialism- reflects the reality and whether it could give enough answers to the crucial questions which was faced by the humankind of that era or not. Atay wrote “The Disconnected” at the climax of his maturity as a writer. With it he created a new type of novel which would produce an effect in the literary progress of the 80’s generation: novel of disappointment. Novel of disappointment describes concepts of people of bourgeois society that was obligatorily formed, concepts that are about life, falling apart against the brutal force of real life. Disappointment have not come to existence first time in Atay (‘s novels) during the progress of modern novel –Turkish novel or Western novel-. First major novel in the world, Don Quixote was also a novel of “lost dreams”. However bourgeois society which was in the process of birth with Cervantes, still destroys feudal dreams that keep agonizing; on the contrary, in Atay(’s novels) concept that carried onto art, society, and human because of the progress of the little bourgeois society or it can be said, top level ideological products of progress of the little bourgeois society turn into an absolute dream when they collide with the terrifying reality of real life. In the Turkish literature, novel of 80’s shattered several dreams. However that shattering effort wend its way to remains of the sensations and thoughts which was still alive. On the other hand, perception or point of view which is extensive, and rich in terms of reality concepts (emerging from the same point of perception in either case) most of the time defeated the dreams that are unfounded, low-quality, and that anchored spoiledly to the soil of reality. However this tragic mocking laugh has tinkled first time –for 80’s generation- for good in the novel of Atay, over the ideological product that pioneered the progress of little bourgeois, inside a clarified unity we see how economy, capitalism force the little bourgeois ideals to a tragic deterioration for the first time in here.},author={Derya KARAOSMANOĞLU},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}