IN CONSIDERATION OF KEMAL TAHIR:THE PROBLEM OF THE INTELLECTUAL AND THE NOVELIST IN TÜRKİYE DEFTERI’S (1971-1975) JOURNAL
KEMAL TAHİR’İN IŞIĞINDA: TÜRKİYE DEFTERİ (1971-1975) DERGİSİNDEKİ AYDIN VE ROMANCI SORUNSALI

Author : Nusret YILMAZ
Number of pages : 270-283

Abstract

The fact that Türkiye Defteri which is a tool of socialist realism which is based on the dialectical relation between the society and art, started the broadcast life after the 12 March military coup is an important event when valued with the specific conditions of the era. The journal writers in the shade of leftist political discussions, in the literary critics, supports Kemal Tahir’s points of views. His local point of wiew inspired by national history identified his literary attitude, in this wat it helped open a new distinctive age in our world of art taking the West as an example. Kemal Tahir who claims that the Novel genre which is an output of bourgeoisie which is a derivation of production relations in the western societies, can’t be considered different from Western sociopolitical realism, believes that it is necessary to open a different paranthesis. His perception of art which his researches on the humane characteristics of the feudality in the East both framed his own novels and specified the perception of art in the journal of the Türkiye Defteri. Türkiye Defteri published in the shaky period of the 1970s, includes critics related to the novelists writing with the perspective of socialist realism besides social facts such as East –West duplication, Westernization, enlightlenment, alienation often discussed in the leftist world of the period. According to this artistic view based on Kemal Tahir, there were assessments on many novelists principally, Sabahttin Ali, Yaşar Kemal, Orhan Kemal, nazım Hikmet, Fahri Erdinç. The fact that in the kournal social facts like feudality are expressed rather than i

Keywords

Türkiye Defteri, Novel, Kemal Tahir, Socialist Realism, East-West.

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