Özet:

Güven Turan, who is a member of the 1960s generation of Turkish literature and has written works in various genres such as poetry, short stories, criticism, and novels, tends towards individual subjects and themes around the understanding of modern art he has adopted. He presents the individual's inner world realistically in his works, in which he tries to understand and explain the human being on an existential level. He does not give much place to social, religious, political, etc. variables in his works. The fiction, which is constructed according to situations rather than events, is accompanied by a dialectic designed within the framework of intellectual dead-ends. The concepts identified with modern art, such as love, loneliness, hope, disappointment, and quest, are among the themes of his novels that reflect the world of common feelings and thoughts. The author puts the theme of love to the center in many of his works. The deep and inclusive effect of the feeling of love on people is effective in the fact that eroticism and sexuality frequently gain functionality in the works. The aim of this study is to determine and examine the thematic structure that emerges with the feeling of love in Güven Turan's novel “Yaz Üçgeni” (Summer Triangle) and the variables of this structure. The research is a qualitative study and was prepared with a text-centered perspective. The data of the study were obtained on the axis of theoretical sources and based on the novel. As a result of the evaluations and inferences, it has been concluded that the author has designed the theme of love by basing it on human feelings such as love, sexuality, and eroticism, and in accordance with the typology of the modern individual.