Abstract:

Kemal Tahir, who is one of the leading figures in social realism movement, was a prominent intellectual as well as a novelist. Kemal Tahir is dissimilar with his contemporary social realist writers with his versatility, utilizes sociology, history, and linguistic readings while writing his own novels. He stated his ideas about structure and future of the novel, and also global and Turkish novel and tried to create a new understanding of novel writing. In the present study, it is tried to be made some detections about Kemal Tahir’s novel poetics by investigating his “Notlar” series which is a collection of his ideas about novel. “Notlar” study edited by Cengiz Yazoğlu, who is the president of Kemal Tahir Foundation, it deals with Kemal Tahir’s opinions about literature, art, language, westernization, ottomanism, and socialism.