Abstract:

The description of space in literature can be considered as the images of the sensibility which was shown by the individual and social sensitiveness in the perspective of past, present and future. In literary works, spaces transforms the realities into facts or senses as the parts of remembering, nostalgia, cultural background, sociological change and the effort to understand human soul. One of the significant characteristics of literature is its ability to reach the sense of reality by both using and pushing the limits of objective criterions. Literature not only loses its objective criterions in character descriptions and chain of events but also it can push the limits of them in the perception of space as the determining factor of the atmosphere which forms the concept of the future and surrounds the sense of the past and as the fast-going or stable indicator of mental atmosphere. Thus, in literary works, there are many meaning dimensions of using space. Spaces can be built with an appearence which concretizes the stratified and fictional set-up supporting the theme. It can be both the apperent side of the atmosphere which completes the fiction or accompanies the feelings of the heroes and memories on which the theme, emotions and individuals are recorded. Therefore, using space in a literary work is one of the prior issues in analysing the fictional and social structures. It can be said that Safiye Erol’s novel “Ülker Fırtınası (1944)” is a significant example to analyse fictional and social elements according to concept of space. In this novel, spaces are not only  the most important witnesses of love and its features such as immortality, being one soul and breaking up which are on the center of the fiction but also an indicator which makes the social change obvious. In this study, in general, the aspects of the relation between literature and space is analysed. Then, specifically, the usage of space in Safiye Erol’s novel “Ülker Fırtınası” and its contrubutions to reveal the objective reality in social and individual senses are examined.

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