Abstract
ANALYZE OF EAST-WEST DILEMMA IN IVAN GONCHAROV’S OBLOMOV AND YAKUP KADRİ KARAOSMANOĞLU’S KİRALIK KONAK
In this study, Russian writer Ivan Gonçarov's work Oblomov and one of the important names of our literature, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu's novels named Kiralık Konak, will be compared sociologically, starting from the East-West dilemma. In this study, the striking contrasts in the Russian and Turkish society, which entered the modernization / Westernization processes, will be discussed, and how Westernization in Russian and Turkish societies corresponds to the works determined through the characters and social structure.
It can be said that the Russian and Turkish societies, which remained in the East both geographically and economically in the historical process, preferred Westernization as a way to catch up with Europe or the West in a more classical sense. For this reason, in the study, the subject of modernization, which is used in the same sense as Westernization, is also emphasized and it is tried to analyze how the idea of modernization is reflected in the works and how positive or negative connotations are created. The main points emphasized in the analysis of the concept of modernization in the works, the characters that can be identified with the East and the West, the clothes associated with these characters and, above all, the society, can be listed as preferred places.
As a result of the study, it has been observed that the positive aspects of the West dominate and the superiority of the West is handled in the Oblomov novel, while it has been determined that the West is handled in a negative way through the concepts of wrong Westernization and 'snobbery' in the Kiralık Konak novel.
Keywords
Key worlds: Modernization, West-East, tradition, innovation, Westernization.