Özet:

Novels, which include reality within the fictional world, take on a "social" responsibility by telling many political, social, historical and religious events. This, which is a necessity of the relationship between literature and society, is also a part of the author’s responsibility towards the society he comes from. The authors act with the awareness of this responsibility in literary works, especially since these events are very influential in shaping the life story of the generation and the future generations. Kemal Tahir is one of the writers of the Republican era with this consciousness; In many of his works, he is both a sociologist and a historian, and plays an important role in the construction of a social identity with his intellectual attitude. The selected hero and the magical object which the heroes tried to reach by idealizing these characters in his novels, The Prison City People (1956), The Prison City Prison (1961) and The Forgotten Warrior (1965), which are the subject of the National Struggle which the author wrote with this consciousness, reveal the place and position of the intellectuals in this defense. At the same time, these novels embody the awakening of the intellectuals in order to awaken the national consciousness at the reader's level, create a cultural memory by keeping alive an extraordinary event experienced by a nation. In this study, Kemal Tahir’s novels on the National Struggle will be analyzed in the context of the journey archetype/quest myth and the selected heroes that constitutes the sample of “national ideals” and “social sensitivity” which are the magical objects of the novels, along with the elements that symbolize national identity. As a result, the place and importance of Kemal Tahir in the National Struggle will be transferred from the perspective of the fictional world.

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