An Analysis Essay On The Story "Yatık Emine" By The Narrator Of Country Stories, Refik Halit Karay

Refik Halit Karay (1888-1965) has a quite important place in Turkish storytelling. Narrator gains this importance by working on Anatolian people’s psychology, way of living and standing against the life, and all together possibilities and impossibilities of the geography of Anatolia in his stories with an effective ability of observation. He reflects the land and its people indepth that he became acquainted with in Sinop, Corum, Ankara and Bilecik, where he travelled through during his exile (1913-1918), in his piece of work “Memleket Hikayeleri”, and he becomes one of the pioneers on taking Turkish storytelling out of Istanbul. The narrator includes Anatolia, which has not found enough place in our storytelling except for a few stories till those years, into his stories with a unique wording and pure Turkish as well as a different sound and point of view. Yüksek Lisans öğrencisi, arif.ozgen@hotmail.com.