Özet:

The reflections of his own life are seen in the works of Guy de Maupassant, who has made important contributions to the development of the short story genre. It is also ironic that the writings of Maupassant, who started to lose his mental health over time due to his genetic structure, are seen as mad. It is not a coincidence that the word "fou" is frequently used in his works. Having an interest in mental illness and the sick, Maupassant both takes classes and observes the insane in a mental hospital. As a result of these observations, he writes short stories. Miss Hermet is one of them. The story that begins with the sentence “Madness attract me” also includes information about insanity. Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, who is an important name in the modernization of Turkish storytelling, was influenced by Samipaşazade Sezai's stories, and the path he took leads him to Maupassant's understanding of story, known as the event story. Halit Ziya, like Maupassant, determines the story topics by observing what is happening around him, as well as being inspired by his own life. It can also be seen that he was influenced by other writers he read. In this direction, intertextual relations can be searched in his works. It can be said that among the story sources of Halit Ziya, besides the elements mentioned, there are the influences that he read from Maupassant. These effects, which sometimes reach the similarity of the subject and character, are embodied in Halit Ziya's "Deliler Evinde". The similarity between the two stories, primarily due to the fact that they are about madness, is reinforced by the names given to the characters. In this study, the commonality of the literary understandings of the two storytellers and the comparison of the similarities between the aforementioned stories are included. Thus, the influence of Maupassant on Halit Ziya will be shown with the evidence.