Özet:

Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem (1847-1914), one of the founding names of modern Turkish literature, is a prolific author who produced works in almost every genre of literature such as novels, poems, stories, plays, articles, literary criticism, literary theory anda letters. Over time, some studies have been carried out on the publication of the corpus of this important name of our literature. However, it is seen that the corpus of Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem could not be completed, and some private/official letters belonging to the author remained in anthology and biography books and magazines. In this article, the author’s twenty unpublished letters will be published and evaluated and will be tried to contribute to the history of literature. Twelve of these letters written between 1868-1913 are in the books called Bedâyi’ül İnşâ, Letâif-i İnşa and Son Asır Türk Şairleri; eight of them were published in Revnak, Gayret, Şehbal, Servet-i Fünun, Resimli Kitap and Yarın magazines. These letters, most of which are to be published for the first time in Latin alphabet, are important in terms of contributing to Ekrem’s biography as well as reflecting the changes in the author’s language and style and the mentality of the period in which they were written.

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