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Greek philosopher Heraclitus constructs existence on the war of opposites. According to him, the existence of the universe and the attainment of the most beautiful harmony can only be possible through this kind of war. Such that he sees war as the father and king of everything. These oppositions of the peoples of the world, who have experienced great wars throughout history, have been the subject of epic, poetry, drama and novel narratives. In both ancient Greek narratives and most of the medieval European literature, war is the basis of the writings, and it is often even the only theme. The most important war narratives of the United States are fed from World War I and World War II. These two World wars, which were the biggest war experiences of the USA apart from the struggle against the natives, which started with the first step on the continent, occupied a central place in the literary world of important literary figures in the 20th century. One of these literary figures is the American literary-journalist John Steinbeck. The author, who is also a member of a literary circle known as the Lost Generation, who witnessed the war and he wrote more than one work about the war like his contemporaries. He participated the war as a reporter and published his articles in the newspapers and after the war he turned this articles in to a novel named Once There Was a War, also revealed his literary journalism with this aspect. This study will try to examine the projections of literary journalism in Steinbeck's work There Was a War, in which he blended both his journalism and his literary work.

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