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In Turkish literature, novel and theater have been the most important genres of literature for over 150 years. In the Tanzimat period literature, examples of these two genres were given for the first time and even the theater was enriched making using ome novels. For the first time in Turkish literature, Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem gives the example of the transfer from the novel to the theater under the name of Atala or the Wilds of America. The adaptation of the novel to the theater continued to be applied in the next periods, especially the famous novels that left their mark on the reader, were conveyed to a wider audience through theater, and their messages could be given directly to the audience.
In this study, a comparison of Huzur, one of the most important works of Turkish literature, written by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar with the theater version written by Kenan Işık was made. First, the issue of making a play from the novel and difficulties encountered are mentioned. To order to understand the comparison, the summary of the novel was given and after the comparison of the two works in terms of language and style, time, place, persons, plot, given messages, the extracted and added elements were stated in detail.