Özet:

One of the most important elements of the modern age is the abandonment of traditional forms of life with the country of progress. While the traditional way of life is pleased with a world perception based on religion, the determinant of modern life has become an unreligious world perception. This can be read through literary works. In fact, in his novel Herman Melville Moby Dick (1851), the famous writer of American literature approached the existential and epistemological questions of man in the axis of metaphysical and material world perception and developed the conflict environment created by the two perceptions around a sea journey, showing the punishment of individual existence in modern American society. Similarly in Turkish literature, Ihsan Oktay Anar da Tiamat (2022) in his novel, known for his historic postmodern novels, discussed the doubt arising from the tension between religion and non-religious world perception and puts the reflection of Turkish modernization as a mental transformation around a sea journey. In the framework of this study, the qualitative research method has been studied and compared Melville's novels named Tiamat by Moby Dickve Anar. The preferred purpose of this method is to discuss Melville's novel Moby Dick and Anar's novel Tiamat's metaphysical and material world perception compared through the theme and characters of maritime travel and the doubt and tension that both perceptions generate brings light to the individual modernization experience in the American and Turkish society. Thus, similar and different modernization experiences in two different cultures have emerged along with the conflict between religion and non-religious world perception.

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