Abstract:

With modern cultures becoming a dominant power at every stage of life, the mapping of meaning maps in human life leads to a complicated structure, the impoverishment of social and individual elegance, the question of life and man. What is life? What is happiness? How is his position in the face of new world order? etc. The main aim of the inquiries centering on questions that involve settlement with life, such as life, is a result of searches that add meaning to human beings and life. The echo in the philosophical and literary space of the mentioned quests combines philosophy and literature with the same axis. Philosophy of existentialism; Is a philosophical movement that questions modern life, the meaning and purpose of life, the existence of the individual who becomes mechanized with modernization. “Belleğin Kış Uykusu” novel is a reckless reckoning novel. The reckoning is based on conflicts that push the existential depression-stricken novel hero Sadık in search of self and therefore in search for meaning in life and in person. The search for meaning to achieve self-sufficiency concentrates on the fundamental problems of existentialist philosophy. By trying to interpret the world, life and people around Albert Camus's "absurd" concept, a parallelism between the dilemmas of the modern world and the seeking of the individual within these dilemmas multiplied by the dilemmas and quests of Sadık. For this reason the novel will be evaluated in the direction of Albert Camus's "absurd" philosophy.    

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