AN ANALYSIS ON FERIT EDGU’S STORIES

Аннотация

Ferit Edgu is one of the best writers of not only Turkish literature but also World literature. He has written his works in different genres such as novels, short stories, memoirs, poems and essays. The author who revealed his stories with an extraordinary structure, has become the representative of his generation. Using language, creating stories with few words is an important element in the writer's storytelling. Since the common denominator of psychology and literature is human and human behavior. It is inevitable that these two disciplines feed one another and form a resource for each other. While depicting life in his stories, he was able to reach meaning integrity by making use of very few words. In this way, he succeeded in attracting and impressing the reader with brief narratives. Existentialism, like Kafka, was evident in his stories. In this article, we tried to analyze Ferit Edgu's stories based on his language, technical elements, richness of expression and beauty concerns. KEYWORDS: - Ferit Edgu, Hakkari, Kafka, Sait Faik, story, short story. Company that he had founded, then Ada Publishing I NTRODUCTION and Bedri Rahmi Art Gallery in Narmanlı Yurdu after 1977. Writer of short stories, novels and essays. He was born on February 24, 1936, in Istanbul. His full His first poem was published in the magazine name is Ismail Ferit Edgu. When he was a senior Kaynak (1952) and his first story was published in student at the Painting Department of the Istanbul the magazine Yeni Ufuklar (January 1954). He Academy of Fine Arts, he went to Paris and studied entered the literary world with his poems published ceramics for six years at the Academie Feu in Paris. in the magazines Kaynak (1952-53), Şairler Yaprağı He continued philosophy at the Sorbonne and art (1954), Mavi (1954), Yeni Ufuklar (1962). Then he history courses at the Louvre (1958-64). After turned to the story and novel, where he was more completing his military service in a village of successful. His stories, reviews and translations had Hakkari in Beypazarı, he stayed in Paris for one started appearing in magazines such as Yeni more year. Returning to Istanbul a year later, he Ufuklar, Pazar Postası, Dost (1954-59), Yeni Dergi, worked as a copywriter in Istanbul Management for Papirüs, Antalya, Soyut. He has written his works in a while. He managed the DATA Advertising different genres such as novels, short stories, CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL 195 SCIENCES ISSN – 2767-3758 https://masterjournals.com/index.php/crjps CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2(12): 195-200, December 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/philological-crjps-02-12-37 ISSN 2767-3758 ©2021 Master Journals Accepted21thDecember, 2021 & Published 26thDecember, 2021 memoirs, poems and essays. interview with his in 1979, defined the artist as the person who revealed with his works that this world M is not the only possible one. He emphasized that the ETHODS function of art is to offer a new breath, a new hope, a new voice and a more humane, truer and more When he was 16-17 years old, he met Sait Faik's genuine future to the society from which it stories by chance and his literary background began emerged, and emphasized that art should make to form. The stories he read from Sait Faik made people conscious of the world they live in and instill 1 him think, "You can write too" . His first story, a belief in change. In his stories and novels, he often which was not included in his books, was published and generally dealt with the mental and sexual in 1953 in the journal Yeni Ufuklar. He made a name depressions of the wealthy and intellectuals, the for himself in the world of literature with his poems loneliness of people, the feeling of alienation, and and stories published in Kaynak, Yeni Ufuklar, unhappiness with a fantastic narrative. Acting on Şairler Yaprağı, Vatan, Mavi, Pazar Postası ve Dost the view that there is no single "truth", he tried to magazines. He drew attention with his articles on reflect the truth in various ways in her stories. He contemporary art and aesthetic problems that he used a simple, very clean, understandable and published in Yeni Dergi, Ant, Eylem, Ataç, Papirüs, surprisingly harmonious language consisting of Soyut ve Yeni Ufuklar journals betweens 1950- Turkish words like a melody. The author says the 1960. following about his own narration: “I have seen over and over again that language is not a tool for Ferit Edgu perceived art as a whole with her works me, it is the basis of the work, its skeleton, positioned in contradiction to her creative everything. When you reach this point, you see that personality. Although he melted reality in the there is no point in embellishing the language, going crucible of existential philosophy and established a to similes, using copious amounts of adjectives. This harmony between content and form, he prioritized is without glare, without creating hollow images formality. The literary lif