Social Alienation in Oğuz Atay’s Novels

As a part of the world he lives in, Oguz Atay stands against the disappearance of human development and humane presence. According to him, society is the most important corner stone of the nation. For him, searching the ideal identity in the other and otherizing part of meta is the biggest social catastrophe. Oguz Atay, listening the inner humane voice with a different point of view, depicts this grift blockage appearing in social memory in his works in an effective way. In Oğuz Atay’s novels, social alienation is an actual and imaginary, ideational fact destroying the imaginary, ideational home and marginalizing the i

Keywords

Oğuz Atay, alienation, social values, otherness, ego, degeneration, commodification.