İnsan Meddiicezri: A thesis novel Hilmi Ziya Ülken's world of thought

Abstract

This thesis embraces Hilmi Ziya Ulken's two novels of a roman-fleuve series published under the title of jnsan Meddiicezri, written in the 30s and 40s; Yarzm Adam was serialized in 1936 and published in 1943 as a novel, and Posta Yolu was published in 1941. The study discusses the place of these novels among Ulken's interdisciplinary works~ including his research in sociology, philosophy and history within the context of thesis novel. Through the thesis, reflections of the concept of "humane patriotism", which Ulken discussed in A§k Ahlakz ( 1931) and jnsani Vatanperverlik (1933) and interpreted as the highest moral value, to jnsan Meddiicezri are evaluated. Among Hilmi Ziya Ulken' s impartial academic works, the novels allow for the writer to present his personal ideas. This phenomenon is observed through the notion of psycho-narration that Transparent Minds Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction and through the fictionalization of characters and dialogues, the role of the repetitions and the position of the narrator that Susan Rubin Suleiman reveals in Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre as the elements of thesis novel. The paper will examine influence of common notions of Spinoza to the Anatolian narrative within the novels. Consequently, it will be concluded that jnsan Meddiicezri makes up for Ulken's academic works and looms large as novels Ulken has written with insights as an artist/a man of letters, to understand the society profoundly and with its contradictions.