Özet:

Nahit Sırrı Örik is a writer who producing literary works in different prose types of the Republic period, such as stories, novels, essays, and travel articles, but fading into oblivion for a long time during his epoch and in the history of literature due to his literary preferences. His preference toward the language and topics of the past in the epoch when the literature was produced for the country was viewed to be in effect in this oblivion. Although Nahit Sırrı was forgotten due to the consideration that he preferred Istanbul literature to Ankara/Anatolia literature, he told, in his travel articles, about Anatolian cities, which he occasionally used as the space in his novels, not European cities where he traveled and lived for a long time. Travel literature is in close contact with the political viewpoint of the epoch when it is produced. Several factors, such as whether travel articles are written or not, spaces selected for traveling and writing, and points to be taken into consideration in these spaces, are under the influence of the political conjuncture. Nahit Sırrı’s travel articles are important as they were written in the epoch called the Early Republic and bore traces of the ideology of the Republic. While the Republic configured its ideology and existence in terms of space, it focused on a variety of indicators such as railroads, industry, architecture, and tourism. Evaluating Nahit Sırrı’s articles within the above context, this article will endeavor to present the approach of the Republic toward cities from a perspective of the epoch and address both how the epoch shapes the literature and what effects the literature has on the epoch.