Bu makale, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’ın günlük tutma sebeplerini incelemektedir. 2007 yılında yayımlanmasından itibaren günlük, Tanpınar’ın kişiliği ve çevresindeki insanlar hakkında yaptığı sert eleştiriler başta olmak üzere birçok açıdan değerlendirilmiştir. Fakat göz ardı edilen hususlardan biri Tanpınar’ın, günlüğü, daha sonra basılması niyetiyle mi tuttuğu yoksa hatırlamak üzere aldığı notları muhafaza eden bir akıl defter olarak mı gördüğüdür. Günlüğün okuyucu fikri olmadan tutulması, Tanpınar’ın arkadaşları hakkında ağır eleştirilerini çözümlemeyi kolaylaştırırken, notların daha sonra basılması fikriyle tutulması ise günlüğü bir intikam kitabına dönüştürmektedir. Bu makale, Tanpınar’ın, günlüğünü, bir gün basılacağı fikriyle tuttuğunu iddia etmektedir.
This article examines Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s motivation of keeping a diary. Since its publication in 2007, Tanpınar’s diary has been analyzed in terms of many aspects, most of which were based on his negative remarks about people around him and his personality portrayed in the diary entries. However, one of the neglected points about his notebooks was whether Tanpınar kept a diary with an intention of publication or it was just an autocue in which he took some notes to remember. The answer is quite significant in that having no intention of making it public would lead a milder criticism on Tanpınar’s sore tone toward his friends while an idea of publication might turn the diary into a book of revenge. He planned and hoped that his diary was going to be published, if not necessarily in his lifetime. He wanted his diary to hold some aesthetic characteristics; therefore, he revised and edited the entries, and even added some explanatory footnotes. His direct address to a reader should be considered his propensity of being read. His sore remarks about people can be explained as his desire to take revenge from people who do not reciprocally show friendship. Contrary to what the editors of the diary claim, that is, Tanpınar wanted only a group of people to read his diary entries, this article aims to prove that Tanpınar wanted his diary to be public.
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