Abstract

Sabahattin Ali has been a popular author not only in his period but also today. The author has revealed his works by pointing out that art should direct society towards the good. At the same time, he has opened a new page in contemporary Turkish literature by bringing social events to the agenda for the first time with a realistic and critical perspective. In these works, in which the social background is described very successfully, the contradiction between the ordinary people and the bureaucracy in the upper class and notables is reflected. Sabahattin Ali has had three novels, Kuyucaklı Yusuf, İçimizdeki Şeytan and Kürk Mantolu Madonna. Among these novels, İçimizdeki Şeytan and Kürk Mantolu Madonna take place in the city; Kuyucaklı Yusuf takes place in the town. The author in his novels starting with individual love stories forms plot based on his observations and some traces of his own li-fe. In this context, he describes the social structure of the period and very important details about the women. In the plot, the women characters have important roles. As a matter of fact, the observer and realistic side of Sabahattin Ali in the novels gives us to observe the author's thoughts about women and women in social life. In this study, starting from the novels of Sabahattin Ali, we will evaluate the social structure of the pe-riod and the thoughts of the author's opinions about woman issue in this structure on the basis of female characters.

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