Özet:

Many works by Rasim Özdenören (1940), written since his youth, are about the villages, towns, and the social life of Anatolia. The themes relating to “Gül Yetiştiren Adam,” consisting of a long story, represent tradition (the man growing the rose) and a modern person being away from their real identity (Sitare) and their lives. The prominent theme of alienation in the work emphasizes young people’s neglect of social values and increasing rupture from the national culture they belong to. The author emphasizes both humans’ social and cultural belongings and also their universal sides through his observations and impressions. The internal revenge of the man growing the rose happens in this context; the story emphasizes the degeneration, starting with modernization in society, the effects of the changing human relationships and the increasingly moral depression in metropolises, and the superficial and insincere relationships in social solidarity. The rose is a metaphor: it symbolizes resurrection, liberation, self-return, serenity, and happiness. The national beliefs and ideals that non-native systems try to destroy are represented in the rose metaphor. This work, reflecting the changing side of social culture, in the context of old-new and native-foreigner, is a story of an individual's survival struggle against a society in which he is forced to change. This study aims to determine how the values, native language consciousness, the naming, the religious beliefs, marriage, and the family institution, began to disappear with modernization, and the background of the conservative reaction, with the perspective of the intellectual in the struggle against loss of these values.

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