MEMORY IN YAŞAR KEMAL’S NOVELS
Journal Title: The Journal of International Social Research - Year 2017, Vol 10, Issue 54
Abstract
This paper aims to explore how Yaşar Kemal uses memory in his novels. As a writer who tends to transform his own memory into the memory of his characters through literary creation, Yaşar Kemal employs trauma and fear of death as an underlying theme that connects his memory and imagination to those of his characters no matter what the cause of the trauma is. As a child at the age of five, Yaşar Kemal experienced the greatest trauma of his life: he witnessed the murder of his father by his adopted brother at the village mosque during evening prayers. Like Yaşar Kemal himself, most of his protagonists are deeply traumatized and suffering individuals who are incessantly haunted by the painful scenes of their traumatic experiences and who try to have a sort of self-psychotherapy through deep inner journeys. The paper examines several of Yaşar Kemal’s important novels through this perspective and demonstrates how he has constructed his characters’ memory.
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Tahsin ÇULHAOĞLU
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