Research Article

Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation with the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades)

Number: 10 April 22, 2026
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Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation with the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades)

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between the experience of modernity and the tragic vision in Safiye Erol’s novel Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades), published in 1944, with particular attention to the protagonist Nuran’s existential crisis. It argues that the novel articulates a distinctly 1930s Istanbul-based experience of modernity through a tragic vision. By tragic vision, the article conceptualizes the tragic as an analytical category within the context of the Turkish novel, drawing on both Western and non-Western theoretical frameworks. It explores how Nuran’s narrative is structured as an inevitable tragic condition of life through the Christian myth of Judas’s betrayal of Jesus. It further analyzes how Nuran’s existential crisis culminates in a form of spiritual integration with Republican cultural modernization, presenting the novel’s tragic vision as both a worldview and an inescapable outcome of Turkish modernity.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Modern Turkish Literature, World Languages, Literature and Culture (Other), Literary Studies (Other)

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

April 22, 2026

Submission Date

December 20, 2025

Acceptance Date

April 8, 2026

Published in Issue

Year 2026 Number: 10

APA
Nuri, A. (2026). Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation with the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades). Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 10, 153-178. https://doi.org/10.64957/nesir.1934959
AMA
1.Nuri A. Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation with the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades). Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2026;(10):153-178. doi:10.64957/nesir.1934959
Chicago
Nuri, Ahmed. 2026. “Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation With the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades)”. Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, nos. 10: 153-78. https://doi.org/10.64957/nesir.1934959.
EndNote
Nuri A (April 1, 2026) Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation with the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades). Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 10 153–178.
IEEE
[1]A. Nuri, “Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation with the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades)”, Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 10, pp. 153–178, Apr. 2026, doi: 10.64957/nesir.1934959.
ISNAD
Nuri, Ahmed. “Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation With the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades)”. Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 10 (April 1, 2026): 153-178. https://doi.org/10.64957/nesir.1934959.
JAMA
1.Nuri A. Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation with the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades). Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2026;:153–178.
MLA
Nuri, Ahmed. “Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation With the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades)”. Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 10, Apr. 2026, pp. 153-78, doi:10.64957/nesir.1934959.
Vancouver
1.Ahmed Nuri. Tragic Vision and Secular Reconciliation with the Divine in Safiye Erol’s Ülker Fırtınası (Storm of the Pleiades). Nesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2026 Apr. 1;(10):153-78. doi:10.64957/nesir.1934959

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