Popüler Roman / Estetik Roman Kavramları ve Aşk Romanı

Elif Şafak is a novel writer whose name is frequently mentioned among contemporary novelists. Before Ask, she published her works Pinhan, Şehrin Aynalari, Mahrem, Bit Palas, Araf, Baba ve Pic, Siyah Sut respectively. Each of these contributed to her recognition. However, it is Ask that is profound in both being deemed worthy of international success awards and making her the author of the best-selling book in the Turkish publishing world in a short time. Ask, first published abroad in the name The Forty Rules of Love, is published in Turkey in the name Ask. Elif Şafak handles the love of Ella-Zahara on the one hand and Mevlana-Şems on the other. No study has been carried out up to today as to whether this sufistic work is popular or aesthetic. In the introduction part of the study, the topic of the popular and aesthetic novel is mentioned. Then, Elif Şafak’s Ask novel has been evaluated in terms of both content and form based on popular and aesthetic novel elements. This evaluation has been done by comparison and document analysis methods. Thus, it has been attempted to determine the original place of Elif Şafak’s Ask novel in the literary world.