Ayfer Tunç Öykülerinde Sevgisizlik Teması

Year 2010, Issue: 23, 87 - 95, 01.02.2010

Abdullah Harmancı Ömer Solak

Abstract

1989’dan itibaren yayımladığıkitaplarla öykücülüğümüzün önemli isimlerinden biri olan Ayfer Tunç, Saklı 1989 , Mağara Arkadaşları 1996 , Aziz Bey Hadisesi 2000 , Taş-Kağıt-Makas 2003 , Evvelotel 2006 adlıöykü kitaplarıyayımlamıştır. Klasik öykü anlatımınıbenimseyen yazar, sağlam bir kurgu ile ördüğü öykülerinde OsmanlıTürkçesi kökenli kelimelerin zengin çağrışımlarından yararlanmıştır. Ayfer Tunç, 1980 sonrasında ülkemizde yazılan öykülerdeki yoğun biçim kaygılarıve avangart tutumdan uzakta durmasıyla dikkati çekmiştir. Ayfer Tunç’un öykülerini, öykü türünün iç şartlarınızedelemeden oluşturduğu, insanın değişen yaşam koşullarıiçindeki tükenişini bütünsellik içinde yansıttığıifade edilmiştir. Kurgu ve içerik yönünden çağdaşarayışların dışında kalmamakla birlikte, özgün görünme adına insan öğesini ihmal etmediği, tam tersine bütün çabasınıinsanısanatsal bir varlık olarak yaratma yolunda gösterdiği belirtilmiştir. Daha ilk kitabından itibaren öykülerindeki ustalıktan ve sahicilikten söz edilmiştir. Ayfer Tunç’un böylesine başarılıbir yazar, bir öykücü olmasının altında, şüphesiz onun edebiyatımızın birikiminden yeterince faydalanmışolması, edebiyatımızın geçmişinde yer alan ustaların eserlerini özümsemişolmasıyatmaktadır. Bu makalede, Ayfer Tunç öykülerindeki sevgi arayışı, gerçek sevgiden mahrum oluşteması, tek tek öykülerin olay örgüleri özetlenerek örneklenmeye çalışılmıştır. Yazar hangi konuyu anlatırsa anlatsın, öykünün derinine inildiğinde, öykü kişilerinin temel probleminin sevgiden mahrum kalışolduğu gözlemlenmektedir. Zengin çağrışımlıdiliyle, sağlam kurgusuyla, edebiyatımızın birikiminden yararlanarak kendine ait bir üslup çıkarabilmesiyle, sevgiden mahrum kalış, sevgi arayışıtemasınıderinlemesine ve sahici bir biçimde işleyişiyle ön plana çıkan Ayfer Tunç edebiyatımızın kalıcıisimlerinden olmaya adaydır.

Keywords

Türk Edebiyatı, Türk öykücülüğü, öykü, tema, olay örgüsü

Lovelessness Theme in Ayfer Tunç’s Stories

Abstract

Ayfer Tunç, who is an outstanding figure of our storytelling with her books published after 1989, was born in 1964 in Adapazarı. Her story books include: Saklı 1989 , Mağara Arkadaşları 1996 , Aziz Bey Hadisesi 2000 , Taş-Kağıt-Makas 2003 , Evvelotel 2006 . Ayfer Tunç has published five story books, from her first book Saklı to Evvelotel 2006 . Having won several awards with these books, Ayfer Tunç has made achieved an important place in Turkish storytelling. Adopting classical storytelling, the writer has benefited from rich connotations of Ottoman words in her stories that have strong fiction and has collected the vocabulary of her stories from a wide area, making use of old words of Turkish. The writer has stated that, there were periods when Turkish language was perceived as an ideological tool, a means of expression, and the subject and object of literature, she has pointed out that language should be approached with awareness, not authority, and that there will be no language where awareness does not exist. One of the factors underlying the fact that the writer has such a reasonable understanding of language and that she is a successful story writer is that, she was inspired by the works of the masters of our literature. Without imitating them, Tunç has managed to make use of the important names of our modern literature. One aspect of Ayfer Tunç’s storytelling that is appreciated a lot by literary critics is the strong fiction in her stories. This fiction is a result of the fact that the writer has benefited well from the masters of our literature. The mastery and authenticity in her stories were mentioned beginning from her first book. It has been stated that Ayfer Tunç creates her stories without damaging the internal conditions of storytelling and that she reflects the burnout of the human being in the changing life conditions in integrality. Although she is not excluded from the contemporary search in terms of fiction and content, she is stated not to ignore the human factor for the sake of appearing original, in contrast, she is making an effort to make the human being an artistic being. The theme that is hidden in almost all of Ayfer Tunç’s stories is the person’s being deprived of love, the thirst for love, and not being able to reach love. Though it has been seen that other themes come forward in other stories, when read carefully, the main problems of the protagonists are being deprived of love and not being able to reach love. In this article, the search for love and the theme of being deprived of real love in Ayfer Tunç’s stories have been demonstrated by summarizing the plots of the stories one by one. In the story that gave its name to the writer’s first book “Saklı”, “the second wife of the immigrant, the elegant lady” experiences bilateral lovelessness. She is deprived of love as she is left alone by the person she loves a lot, and she does not love her husband. Moreover, she is not liked by the society. In the story “Ses Tutsağı” in Mağara Arkadaşları, our narrator is a lonely man and in order to get rid of his loneliness, he listens to the voices coming from the flat upstairs where a widower woman with children lives. He surrenders gradually to this game, and has an attachment for the woman, but doesn’t get a response for his love at first . There are two lonely and “loveless” people, one man and one woman, and the story ends in an interesting way. In the story that gives its name to the book in Aziz Bey Hadisesi, the life of Tamburi Aziz Bey is told through flashbacks. Aziz Bey, who is a handsome, confident and brilliant boy, will feel a “blind love” that will ruin his life, he will fall in love with Maryam, who doesn’t even love him, follow her to Beirut, but will be disappointed and come back to İstanbul. He will not love Vuslat, who loves him in his adulthood. Like it is the case in all Ayfer Tunç stories, love is never revealed. In Aziz Bey’s youth, the women that fall in love with him, are not loved back by Aziz Bey. We meet a lonely narrator in “Kaybetme Korkusu” in Taş-Kağıt-Makas. He is lonely and she is a writer. The apartment building where she lives and the lives of people living there are told. The residents of these flats cheat their husbands by our narrator. One of the characters in the story, Safir, causes her wife to commit suicide, although not on purpose. The reason for that is the fact that he lets her wife alone although for short times. Bearing the strange childhood of Süsen in mind, the situation is rather logical. The characters in the story are deprived of love. They either don’t love or are not loved by others. We hope that, our analysis will be useful in understanding Ayfer Tunç’s works which are outstanding in terms of having a rich and associative language, a strong fiction, having her own style, and working on themes such as being deprived of love and the search for love and in a genuine way

Keywords

Turkish literature, Turkish storytelling, theme, alienation, plot

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