@article{2019,title={EFFECTS OF CESARE PAVESE ON TEZER ÖZLÜ: EXISTENCE IN JOURNEY TO THE END OF LIFE},abstractNode={In this study, Tezer Özlü's novel Journey to the End of Life will be read through the diary of Italian poet, writer Cesare Pavese and the process of both authors leading up to their death will be evaluated in terms of existential dialectic. Tezer Özlü was very impressed by Cesare Pavese's life story and composed Journey to the End of Life through following Cesare Pavese's suicide. The woman, in The End of Life, set out on a journey to see the places where Pavese was born and lived and at the end of the novel, she also saw her bed in the hotel room where she committed suicide. Therefore, the female protagonist in the novel, has questioned her own adventure of existence through Pavese’s life story. The writing adventure of Tezer Özlü is the process of discovering her existence. By doing so, she tries to endure throes of/tragedy of her existence. Besides, Tezer Özlü tries to discover her own self by writing. Writing is for her to detach herself from society/symbolic sphere and to take cover purview of imaginary. Considering the function of literature from the point of view of the reader and writer, the act of reading and writing is to draw the person into the inner world by isolating himself/herself from the outside world. So, the author and the reader realize the inner view and they try to make sense of the adventure of existence. Considering the function of literature in a holistic sense, as the existentialists say, it is the process of self-discovery/exploration of a man who has been thrown into the world by separation from his God. The symbolic / social sphere has an indirect effect both on discovery of one's own self and one's existence. One discover him/herself at his/her loneliness better. Literature as to provides opportunities for both the author and the reader in this discovery. Tezer Özlü presents her own existence through Cesare Pavese, a writer who, like herself, suffers from the world pain, and the woman’s adventure of existence in Journey to the End of Life.( it actually overlaps with her own biography.) },author={Şahika KARACA},year={2019},journal={Turkish Studies - Language and Literature}}