Abstract
Known for his poetry, novel, story and theater works, Necati Cumalı, in his novel Aşk da Gezer, instead of Anatolian people by moving away from the usual themes that permeate his personality, the theater actors around him oriented towards relationships. The Turkish intellectual, who has been trying to become westernized in every field since the Tanzimat, through the theater environment Necati Cumalı, who criticizes from a socialist point of view, his artists are in the conflict between tradition and modernity evaluates. In the novel, where the narrator tries to balance between the modern and the tradition, the period of the 1960s the relations in the art environment, as much as it gets its reality from the work that the author has closely established with the theater genre, he is also indebted to his realistic observations.
Continuing his socialist sensibility in this work, Necati Cumalı, without interfering with the flow of the novel, puts forward his ideas on the concept of the artist, the limits of art and the reflection of love on the relations in the art world. In the study, the situation of male-female relations in a theater company that came to İzmir in the 1960s while making comments, the ideal artist and ideal relationship understanding of the socialist writer was determined .Also the author’s this work, which moved away from Anatolian realism, was developed with the theme of Westernization, and the tuluat groups of the period, by examining the characteristics of the elements of modern art gatherings such as the relationship between men and women, another contribution to the literary personality of Necati Cumalı is made.