A Contribution to the Suat Derviş Collection: A Study on Her Stories Published in Yeni Şark Newspaper

Abstract

Suat Derviş is one of the important writers of Turkish literature. Various studies on Derviş’s corpus have been and continue to be put forward. İn this study, in the context of Suat Derviş’s stories left in newspaper columns, it is aimed to bring the stories identified in Yeni Şark newspaper into corpus. In addition to the author’s stories titled “Lades”, “Menekşe’nin İntikamı”, “Tevkifhane Köpeği”, “Rüya”, “Bir Mektup”, a translated story titled “Yeni Çığır” was also discovered in the newspaper. The stories, which can be considered as Suat Derviş’s first pen experiences, will enable Derviş’s line of authorship to be revealed more distinctly and the traces of her authorship to be followed more clearly. The stories are analyzed in terms of overploting, character, time and place with the classical method of analysis. Suat Derviş deals with women’s right, feminity and masculinity in his story “Lades”; supernatural events that can be included in horror literature in “Menekşe’nin İntikamı”; animal narrative in “Tevkifhane Köpeği”; unrequited love in “Bir Mektup” and “Rüya”; the importance of the memory genre in her stories “Yeni Çığır”, which was translated from French. It is understood from the subjects of her stories that Suat Derviş as a writer open to innovation since her first pen experiences.