SABAHATTİN ALİ’NİN “KIRLANGIÇLAR” ÖYKÜSÜ ÜZERİNE ALEGORİK BİR OKUMA

Abstract

Sabahattin Ali, who has an important place in terms of representing the transition to the modern story plane, is seen as a socialist-realist writer based on the years 1927-1947. Although people from all walks of life appear in their stories, there are certain fictional people that Sabahattin Ali gives his criticism over them. He puts his stories on the ground of conflict through peasants, workers, intellectuals, bureaucrats, aghas, doctors, prisoners. The author, whose works are examined on the axis of social-realistic understanding, has a soulful and sincere sensitivity in his life. One of the stories that show this feeling is “Kırlangıçlar”. It was written in 1933 and published in Varlık in 1935. Story of Kırlangıçlar, in which love-separation and individual-herd opposition are seen in the context, different from the other him stories with its allegorical narrative style. Other stories have general appearances of the character which provide the conflict. In the story, which has not been emphasized much, the inadaptability between the individual and the society is expressed by characterizing two swallows. The meaning not given directly shows itself in the behavior of the swallows, their lack of communication with the herd, their interaction with each other. Firstly, the structural elements of the story were examined and the frame was determined, and then it was determined that the passage of time and the author's construct of the story were parallel to each other. In the context of the individual's attitude towards the herd, an allegorical reading of the "Kırlangıçlar" story was made over the given representations.