Realism, Tradition and Novelty in the Novel Dear Shameless Death

Abstract

Latife Tekin has written a novel handling rural-urban dualism in a refreshed but different point of view, and thus she bore her mark to the 1980's Turkish literature as well as maintaining this theme in two of her novels written later. This work, embellished with an autobiographical motive, chooses its subject matter from the migratory Aktafl family from the village to an urban area, its annihilation in aberrant relationships and its alienation in the midst of such an aberration. The process of authorship of the protagonist Dirmit, who was endowed with a representation of the self of the author, is realised with this process. The inner world of each character peculiar to the extraordinariness of each person helps reconstruct the narrating possibilities and a mode of language transformed into a structural element. The novel is rendered realistic when combined with Latin American literature set in the third world milieu in terms of the habitual missing of a father, his transfer of the instruments of the civilized world to the rural area eking a life of irrationality, a mother who has constant biddings with Azrail in the face of death, a daughter who has constructed a world of animated and inanimated objects. This novel is not only plotted with a poetically inner voice, but it is strengthed with a rich observation and popular narrations. The Dear Shameless Death, is recounted as not limited with change of setting and migration, but employs the selfhood problematic of the individual as well as different introspections touching on different themes. This article has been focused on the novel and different aspects to Turkish novel within the context of tradition and realism.