Abstract:

    The sixth novel of Kaan Arslanoglu, who started his novel with the novel Devrimciler (1988), is İntihar‐Zamanımızın Bir Kahramanı. The author, who has experienced the events of the 1980s period and saw the influence of his experiences in his works, now has thirteen novels. This novel by Arslanoğlu, who successfully portrays the human portraits of our time in his works, is about the struggle for the existence of the character Erdem as a struggle for existence in the society, the alienation of himself and his surroundings. The modern human type and its problems, which have begun to be seen in Turkish society as it is in other societies, have also  found their place in Turkish novel. Erdem character, who shares the same problems as today's Turkish society, depression and loneliness, resembles many other novel characters with these problems. In this work, the tragedy of a modern city man who is suffering from the grip of life, psychological dilemmas, suicide and planning to give up everything will be examined through sociological and psychoanalytic basis through the novel of İntihar‐Zamanımızın Bir Kahramanı novel.

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