Articles

The subject-object Carnival organization in Haldun Taner’s novels

Vostok/Oriens '2017, №4

DOI: 10.7868/S0869190817040082

 
The article reviews the early novelistic of Turkish classic writer Haldun Taner. The article focuses on the linkage and interrelation of subject and object of the narration. I stresses that writer’s choice of subject-object structure of short novels is defined by his conscious artistic approach. He perceived his own method as realism with an exceptional attention to ethical and spiritual components of human life. The attitude implying highest spiritual and ethical expectations makes Taner one of the most outstanding figures in Turkish literature of 1940 – beginning of 1980s and enabled him to create very peculiar artistic language which characterizes by the dominance of carnivalization with its tradition of naughty jokes, humor, games combined with refined theatrical play, bright and multilevel hurricanes of laugh, with grotesque mismatch of the form and content.

Keywords: Turkish literature, short novels, carnavalisation, artistic language, theatre, play, humour, laugh

Pages: С. 77–84