Özet:

Refik Halit Karay is one of the leading names of Turkish literature in the Republican Period. The author, who was exiled twice during his life due to his political attitude, wrote the works of Memleket Hikâyeleri and Gurbet Hikâyeleri with his experiences in exile. These two works are also included in a kind of memoir by literary researchers. Because the stories he wrote as a result of his observations and published in various magazines, although fictional, sometimes carry traces of the author’s life. There are seventeen stories in Gurbet Hikâyeleri, which was first published in 1940. In the book; The Eskici story, in which the longing for homeland and mother tongue is emphasized, is the second story. The plot of the story passes between little Hasan, who had to immigrate to the Palestinian lands because he was orphaned, and the shoe repairman. The author, who includes strong descriptions in terms of spatial characteristics, tells about Arabia, which he calls “warm countries” from the eyes of Hasan, who was put on the ferry to go from Istanbul to Haifa. In this study, a travel reading was made based on the Refik Halit Karay’s Eskici story and the author’s impressions of there were evaluated while Haifa was still a Palestinian land in 1938.

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