Abstract:

When interpreting the works of Suat Derviş, who has become one of the names that literature researchers have emphasized, in recent years, it is necessary to mention her journalist identity that shaped her view of life and her understanding of art and her articles in newspapers. Among these articles, especially the inter- views she published in newspapers are important. It is possible to say that Suat Derviş, as a journalist, carried the events she saw, the people she met, to her interviews, and therefore she used these interviews many times in her fictional works, both when creating the characters and shaping the event. Through these interviews, which shaped both her journalist identity and her artistic imagination, the author, who went down to the back streets of İstanbul, used the experiences she gained through these interviews as material in her works. In this context, the novel Fosforlu Cevriye, which was first serialized in the newspaper Gece Postası in 1945, is also a novel written based on Suat Derviş’s interviews. Therefore, this article will primarily focus on the journalist identity of Suat Derviş, who has been a journalist for many years, and then Fosforlu Cevriye will be interpreted within the framework of the author’s interviews.