1960 SONRASI TÜRK ROMANINDA YABANCILAŞMA VE MODERNİST ANLATI: OĞUZ ATAY, YUSUF ATILGAN VE ADALET AĞAOĞLU ÖRNEĞĠ

Abstract

This study examines how modernist narrative and the theme of alienation are shaped together in the post-1960 Turkish novel through Oğuz Atay’s Tutunamayanlar, Yusuf Atılgan’s Anayurt Oteli, and Adalet Ağaoğlu’s Ölmeye Yatmak. The study focuses on the effects of modernization on the individual, the East-West duality, intellectual identity, loneliness, lack of communication, and the search for identity. In Oğuz Atay’s novel, alienation appears through the ironic and fragmented consciousness of the intellectual who cannot adapt to petit-bourgeois life. In Yusuf Atılgan’s Anayurt Oteli, alienation is mainly shaped around Zebercet’s loneliness, psychological disintegration, and inability to communicate with others. In Adalet Ağaoğlu’s Ölmeye Yatmak, alienation is evaluated through the conflict between the identity of the educated Republican woman and the pressures of tradition, modernization, body, and the search for freedom. In this respect, all three novels use alienation not only as a theme but also as a central element that determines the form of modernist narration. As a result, this study aims to present comparatively the fragile, fragmented, and questioning position of the individual in the post-1960 Turkish novel in the face of modernization.

Keywords: Modernist narrative; Alienation; Post-1960 Turkish novel; Oğuz Atay, Yusuf Atılgan and Adalet Ağaoğlu.