Özet:

The existence of comparative literature which is presently under the heading of general literary science goes back to the invention of writing in terms of the effect and interaction between the literary works and texts. However, emergence and usage of the term comparative literature was in the nineteenth century. The comparative literature is based upon the idea of world literature named as “Weltliteratur” by Goethe. The fundamental goal of this idea is creating a universal literary culture with the total sum of every nation’s own masterpiece. In the world, most literary works whether written in the same language or in different languages have similar features with most of the other works in terms of form, content, and style. In this study the novels Kılıç Yarası Gibi by Ahmet Altan and Kodaman by Ercümend Ekrem Talû are analyzed in the context of comparative literature. Therefore, these two novels have common or namely similar points although they were published in different years. Consequently, aforementioned novels provide opportunities for analysis in terms of the science of comparative literature.

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