AN-ANTI HERO IN YUSUF ATILGAN’S NOVEL CALLED CANİSTAN: SELİM

Number: 7 September 1, 2010
  • Zübeyde Şenderin
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AN-ANTI HERO IN YUSUF ATILGAN’S NOVEL CALLED CANİSTAN: SELİM

Abstract

Yusuf Atılgan is the one of the most important names of the Turkish literature after 1950. Canistan is the writer’s third and the last novel which was written after Aylak Adam and Anayurt Oteli, in many respect, two original and well known works of Turkish novel. First of all, Yusuf Atılgan was able to write first three chapters of the novel called “trial”, “judge” and “witness”, but he died without being able to finish fourth and the last chapter called “accused”. Therefore, Canistan joined the unfinished novels which were completed in the reader’s imagination as Aydaki Kadın (Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar) and Eylembilim (Oğuz Atay). Secondly the work aimes to discuss an original issue and character. The novel tells about Selim’s meeting with Ali many years later and the killing of Ali by Selim. Selim was a son of poor family and was given a servant to the Ali’s family, so they lived together during their childhood. Novel also examines the process which converted Selim into a cruel torturer and Ali into a victim. Selim portrays differently from the most of usual protagonists of novels from the aspects of his personality, morality and reactions. Despite the novel was opened up very taumatic scene describing how Selim tortured his childhood friend, it also presents Selim as related with the behaviours and actions representing goodness, righteousness and honesty. The novel as a whole has been focusing on constructing the background which created Selim’s this pathology which converted him and anti-hero with his actions by the means of interactions among his moral, social and psychological motivations. In this article, it is aimed to examine Selim as a protagonist transformed into an anti-hero with combinations of his psychological, social attitudes in the context of existentialism and philosophy of absurdity that Yusuf Atılgan is related, by the means of searcing on fiction of the novel, too.

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Zübeyde Şenderin This is me

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September 1, 2010

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September 1, 2010

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Year 2010 Number: 7

APA
Şenderin, Z. (2010). YUSUF ATILGAN’IN CANİSTAN ADLI ROMANINDA BİR ANTİ - KAHRAMAN: SELİM. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 7, 135-142. https://izlik.org/JA67CW35UG
AMA
1.Şenderin Z. YUSUF ATILGAN’IN CANİSTAN ADLI ROMANINDA BİR ANTİ - KAHRAMAN: SELİM. PAUSBED. 2010;(7):135-142. https://izlik.org/JA67CW35UG
Chicago
Şenderin, Zübeyde. 2010. “YUSUF ATILGAN’IN CANİSTAN ADLI ROMANINDA BİR ANTİ - KAHRAMAN: SELİM”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, nos. 7: 135-42. https://izlik.org/JA67CW35UG.
EndNote
Şenderin Z (September 1, 2010) YUSUF ATILGAN’IN CANİSTAN ADLI ROMANINDA BİR ANTİ - KAHRAMAN: SELİM. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 7 135–142.
IEEE
[1]Z. Şenderin, “YUSUF ATILGAN’IN CANİSTAN ADLI ROMANINDA BİR ANTİ - KAHRAMAN: SELİM”, PAUSBED, no. 7, pp. 135–142, Sept. 2010, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA67CW35UG
ISNAD
Şenderin, Zübeyde. “YUSUF ATILGAN’IN CANİSTAN ADLI ROMANINDA BİR ANTİ - KAHRAMAN: SELİM”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 7 (September 1, 2010): 135-142. https://izlik.org/JA67CW35UG.
JAMA
1.Şenderin Z. YUSUF ATILGAN’IN CANİSTAN ADLI ROMANINDA BİR ANTİ - KAHRAMAN: SELİM. PAUSBED. 2010;:135–142.
MLA
Şenderin, Zübeyde. “YUSUF ATILGAN’IN CANİSTAN ADLI ROMANINDA BİR ANTİ - KAHRAMAN: SELİM”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. 7, Sept. 2010, pp. 135-42, https://izlik.org/JA67CW35UG.
Vancouver
1.Zübeyde Şenderin. YUSUF ATILGAN’IN CANİSTAN ADLI ROMANINDA BİR ANTİ - KAHRAMAN: SELİM. PAUSBED [Internet]. 2010 Sep. 1;(7):135-42. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA67CW35UG
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