TY  - JOUR
T1  - Selim Işık’s Agony in Oğuz Atay’s "Tutunamayanlar"
TT  - Oğuz Atay’ın "Tutunamayanlar" Romanında Selim Işık’ın Izdırabı
AU  - Say, Emre
PY  - 2024
DA  - December
Y2  - 2024
DO  - 10.53487/atasobed.1425524
JF  - Current Perspectives in Social Sciences
PB  - Ataturk University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2822-3160
SP  - 472
EP  - 476
VL  - 28
IS  - 4
LA  - en
AB  - This paper discusses the source and aspects of agony vexing Selim Işık the protagonist to a suicide at an early age in Oğuz Atay’s Tutunamayanlar. In this respect, Selim Işık’s Sartrianly defiant disposition is demonstrated by drawing upon specific quotations taken from the novel. In the paper, an intertextual method of comparison is occasionally employed by dint of references to another remarkable miserable protagonist in Turkish Literature – namely Doktor Hikmet in Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’s Bir Sürgün. Besides, throughout the article where available and applicable, references are made to some canonical works of Western Literature including Ibsen’s tragedies, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet in order to further substantiate and accentuate the arguments made.
KW  - Oğuz Atay
KW  - Selim Işık
KW  - Sartre
KW  - Existence
KW  - Rebel
KW  - Suicide
N2  - This paper discusses the source and aspects of agony vexing Selim Işık the protagonist to a suicide at an early age in Oğuz Atay’s Tutunamayanlar. In this respect, Selim Işık’s Sartrianly defiant disposition is demonstrated by drawing upon specific quotations taken from the novel. In the paper, an intertextual method of comparison is occasionally employed by dint of references to another remarkable miserable protagonist in Turkish Literature – namely Doktor Hikmet in Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’s Bir Sürgün. Besides, throughout the article where available and applicable, references are made to some canonical works of Western Literature including Ibsen’s tragedies, Kafka’s Metamorphosis, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet in order to further substantiate and accentuate the arguments made.
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.53487/atasobed.1425524
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/3683548
ER  -