Mark Twain ve Tanpınar'dan Âdem ve Havva Hikâyeleri

Adam and Eve –who are the very first and the most attractive source that man and women, who would like to understand/depict each other, apply –are one of the common themes for many divine religions. Adam as the firs man and the first prophet and creation of Eve as his wife, “forbidden tree/fruit” that leads to Man’s Fall from the Garden of Eden and the orijin of life on Earth have been mentioned in so many works. It is such a commenly used and loved theme in plastic arts such as painting, sculpting, miniatures, etce. And literature. In this article, Mark Twain’s “Extracts From Adam’s Diary” and “Eve’s Diary” and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s “Âdem and Eve” tale have been examined. They dealt with men and women relationship with reference to the formation of love, their own amendments and comments in becoming the firs couple. The objective of this study is to give the efforts of human couple’s understanding each other in authors’ images rather than identifying their compatibility with the tales in Divine religions. As these are literary works, they are not retells of the tale of Genesis and the authors’ own changes and comments are matters of question. The pieces have been examined under the subtitles of Garden of Eden, Creation of Eve, Being Equipped with Knowledge, Forbidden Tree, Fall from Eden, Being Able to be Adam and Eve. As a result, both of the two writers’ great interest felt for the first man his wife is observed. They focus on Eve’s effect on Adam. Even if there are some changes on Eve, mostly affected or changed one is Adam. The efforts of men and women to understand one another continue today as they continued in the past. Since this will last as long as the mankind exists. Adam and Eve will be a rich source that is appealed by artists.