Abstract:

As well as being a poet and poetry critic, Ahmet Oktay has been interested in the art of fiction closely and he has written many critiques on important novels in Turkish literature. He has developed ideas about what the novel is at theoretical level; beginning from 1950s he has had evaluations about the development of Turkish novel in the literature magazines .His ideas about today's novel in the context of popular culture and the media ,contain the concerns of an experienced critic. Oktay thinks the level the Turkish novel has reached is not very successful in many aspects. While he is evaluating the effects of technological opportunities posed by the new social structure on novel, he thinks the novel ,was emptied in social and politic aspects, is also lost value in literary/aesthetic level. The novel's loss of value in literary aspects is performed by especially elimination of individual and the protagonist's destruction in novel, In this study, Ahmet Oktay’s ideas about the novel protagonist's function will be examined in this direction.

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