Anthony Burgess’in Otomatik Portakal’ındaki Tekinsiz Evler

Year 2024, Issue: 40, 865 - 879, 25.06.2024

Işıl Öteyaka

https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1502246

Abstract

Anthony Burgess'in ilk olarak 1962'de yayınlanan Otomatik Portakal'ı, "ev" kavramını hem fiziksel bir alan hem de tekinsizliğin psikolojik durumu olarak ortaya koymaktadır. Bu tezahür, anlatıda, terörün ve yabancılaşmanın odağı olarak hizmet eden bir alan ve mekân olarak evin rahatsız edici bir tasviridir. Anlatı, ev fikrini bu fikrin yerleşik güvenli, konforlu ve rahat mekân anlayışlarından uzaklaştırarak yapıbozuma uğratan oda, ev ve hapishane gibi farklı mekânlar aracılığıyla sergilemektedir. Ev ile ilgili güvenli ve güvensiz durumların yan yana gelmesi, evi bir yabancılaşma içinde ortaya koymakta ve bu yabancılaşmanın, evi, aile bağlarıyla ve kültürel ve politik bağlamlarla çerçevelenen bir terör mekânına dönüştürmesini, ev kavramından uzak ve tekinsiz bir yer haline getirmesini ortaya koymaktadır. Çalışma, Burgess'in Otomatik Portakal adlı eserinde ana karakter Alex ve onun "kankalar" çetesinin aşırı eylemleriyle örneklenen sosyal ve politik dinamikleri inceleyerek, hem ev kavramından uzak hem de tekinsiz bir mekân olarak evin karmaşıklıklarını ortaya çıkarmayı amaçlamaktadır.

Keywords

Anthony Burgess, Otomatik Portakal, ev, tekinsiz

Unhomely Homes in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange

Abstract

Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, originally published in 1962, manifests the concept of "home" as both a physical space and a psychological state of the unhomely. This manifestation is an unsettling portrayal of home as a space and place, which serves as a locus of terror and estrangement within the narrative. The narration displays the idea of home through different locations such as room, house and prison each one of which deconstructs the idea of home by decentering it from its established conceptions of a safe, comfortable and cozy place. The juxtaposition of safe and unsafe situations related to home mainly reveals home within an estrangement through which home becomes a place of unhomely and uncanny, a location of terror framed by elements of family ties, cultural and political contexts. Through an examination of social and political dynamics, exemplified by the extreme actions of protagonist Alex and his gang of "droogs," the study aims to unravel the complexities of home as both a place and space of the unhomely and uncanny in Burgess's A Clockwork Orange.

Keywords

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, home, unhomely, uncanny

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