An Evaluation on The Novel of Peyami Safa’s Yalnızız

Abstract

Peyami Safa is one of the prolific writers of the Republican period. The author, who wrote works under many pseudonyms, especially Server Bedi, mostly focused on the concepts of east-west, matter-mana. Safa, who conveyed his thoughts to his readers with his columns during the war period, also wrote stories, travelogues and plays. In this analysis of the novel Yalnızız, it is aimed to draw the framework of the study correctly and to provide arguments for subjective judgements arising from the hermeneutic approach when evaluating the novel Yalnızız by including information about Safa, who went beyond physical spaces and opened the door to mental spaces. In this direction, it is aimed to examine the characters in the novel Yalnızız and thus to go deeper into the psychology of the characters through the novel, which is at the centre of the concept of utopia in Turkish literature, and to understand the world that Safa wanted to present to the reader with the country of "Simeranya".