Ahmed Hamdi Tanpynar and his novel “A Mind at Peace” (about some stylistic features of the novel’s form and content)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the biography and creative works of one of the most famous Turkish writers — Ahmed Hamdi Tanpynar (1901–1962), the author of various poems, novellas, novels, essays and researches on the Modern Turkish literature. For the first time in the sphere of Russian philology the author of the article using the Turkish literary critics’s researches presents the general analysis of Tanpynar’s works. Examining Tanpynar-novelist’s creation, the author analyses images of the main characters, features of the social background and the most particular ideas. Also the author examines the style of the first and the most famous Tanpynar’s novel — “Huzur” (“A Mind at Peace”). It’s particularly pointed out that in this psychosocial novel the motifs, aesthetic moves and formal methods, typical for realism and modernism, combine together.

Keywords:

Turkish prose of the XXth century, problem of the intelligentsia in Turkish literature, poetical aesthetics of prose, psychological novel, realism, modernism