A Thematic Approach To Hulki Aktunc’s Stories


Hulki Aktunc, a significant figure for Turkish literature, is an artist who has works in the areas of poetry, authoring, painting and he is remarkable for being versatile. With his different genre, he brings a different point of view to Turkish storytelling. He synthesises traditional and futuristic elements succesfully. While a rawness of being the first is seen in his first stories Gidenler Donmeyenler and Kurtarilmis Haziran, this rawness is replaced with a well-settled expression of a skilled penman in his story books Ten ve Golge, Bir Yer Gostericinin Hayati, Guz Her Seyi Bilir. His success in storytelling becomes significant especially with his work Ten ve Golge. In his stories whose narration is dominated by imagery, he concentrates on characters who are lonely, without sense of belonging and who has the desire of escape. Aktunc, who concentrates on the world of the little man, prefers an expression knitted with lonliness in his stories in which i


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Hulki Aktunc, loneliness, escape, alienation, belongingness

Author : Sevgül TÜRKMENOĞLU
Number of pages: 1607-1615
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.5772
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Journal of Turkish Studies
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