NIETZSCHE’S PERCEPTION OF METAPHOR AND THE CONCEPT OF PESSIMISM ACCOMPANIED BY THE STORY “THERE IS A SNAKE ON THE ALEMDAĞ” OF SAIT FAIK ABASIYANIK


Nietzsche (1844-1900) describes himself as the first psychologist among the philosophers; with this attitude he was undoubtedly the person who paved the way for Freud and the psychoanalysis. As someone who rejects existence and believes in the stability of reality, Nietzsche created himself a world out of concepts. As a lonely fighter in this world, he also comes to a judgment on the Creation by condemning God to death. To be more specific, his main problem is that the process between being created from nothing and being restructured is understood the other way around (or at least wrongly). This reflex of the metaphor of creating its own reality makes Nietzsche furious. The metaphor with its closing, misleading, bending and concealing structure is for him the symbol of the fake and the false in the fiction. The author, who tells, convinces, creates new worlds with words, is able to reproduce the pessimistic world in which he has fallen in a charming packaging accompanied by beautiful fragrances and finally in a pleasant way, with the instrument of metaphor. In other words, it is a danger that the reader becomes passive, gets another state of mind and is influenced by pessimism. Did Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906-1954) with his Story Alemdağ’da Var Bir Yılan [eng. there is a snake on the Alemdağ] remain with just his views of the utterly and drastically changing human pessimistic on a harmless level, or did he declare his independence by using the words as cutting tools and destroying the world consisting of four stories? It is unthinkable that Sait Faik, one of the greatest novelists in Turkish literature, wrote his stories without his state of mind influencing his words in the darkest phase of his life. With adding the story “there is a snake on the Alemdağ” of Sait Faik Abasıyanık to the theoretical explanation of pessimism that happens around Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Tönnies, Spengler, Hobbes and especially Nietzsche, I aimed to complete the part of practice.


Keywords


Nietzsche, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, pessimism, metaphor

Author : Mehmet Akif DUMAN
Number of pages: 529-550
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.22674
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Turkish Studies - Language and Literature
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