Abstract:

It is seen that, with different meanings over the years, the canon word has a religious content in the context of church law, except for secular uses. In the context of literature, canon is defined as "the list of good writers that the authorities running society have blessed, and the permission or approval given to the person to be added to it". In addition, canonical texts contain stories that make members of a community understand the common ties between them. There is a strong connection between the formation of nation states and the literary canon. It seems that during the transition to the republican regime, the monarchical administration created a literary canon in Turkey in the same way as above. In this context, Aka Gündüz (1885-1958) was one of the authors who wrote in accordance with the revolutionary canon, shaped around Kemalist coterie, to learn and internalize the Republican revolutions. One of his works in which the author, also worked on different genres, mentioned about the revolutions of the period and praised the Republic is Dikmen Yıldızı. Noticeable differences between the four editions of the work that can be evaluated within the context of the Turkish novel in the nation-building process present important data for analyzing the social and political background of the period. In this article, at first, Dikmen Yıldızı will be examined thematically and fictitiously and by this way, author’s initiative on the work will be attempted  to be  determined. Then, the four different editions of the novel will be examined and the author’s attitudes towards the canon will be evaluated.

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