AHMET ALTAN’IN ÜÇ ROMANINDA SULTAN II. ABDÜLHAMİT’İN MİZACINA DAİR BAZI TESPİTLER
Özet
Disciplines of literature and history intersect by taking part of a historical event or a personality in literary works. Literary works may deal with direct historical event or person or may place historical items in the second plan. Besides, it comes into question that the blending of real and fiction and presenting to the reader. Ahmet Altan also gives place to some historical elements in some of his novels. Especially, the last period of the Ottoman Empire takes the author’s interest. Altan treats the historical cases as well as some figures of this period in his novels. Sultan Abdülhamit II is the foremost among them. The author deals besides political moves of Sultan Abdülhamit II as well as fears, concerns and passions of Abdülhamit. Thus, Ahmet Altan adds some characteristics concerning humor of the Sultan Abdülhamit II to the texture of his novels.
In this study, in the novels of Ahmet Altan’s Kılıç Yarası Gibi (Like a Sword Wound) , İsyan Günlerinde Aşk (Love in the Days of Rebellion), and Ölmek Kolaydır Sevmekten (Death is easier than Love), how the personality of Sultan Abdülhamit II appeared has been analyzed.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Ahmet Altan, Abdülhamit II, novel, humor.