Abstract
THE DESİRE TRİANGLES IN THE NOVEL KUYUCAKLI YUSUF
Rene Girard has addressed the structure which he calls the “triangular desire model” in his novel named Romantik Yalan ve Romansal Hakikat: Edebi Yapıda Ben ve Öteki. In this structure the author argues that the desire is not spontaneous and that there is a cause for it to whether come into open or not. In this triangular desire model which applies more to novels, the subject, the object that the subject desires and the mediator that makes the desire to come out for the corners of the triangle. In this study Sabahattin Ali’s Kuyucaklı Yusuf novel will be studied according to the triangle model of Girard. Kuyucaklı Yusuf, due to the nature of it, is a piece of work that can be an example of Girard’s theory. The desires of the characters in the novel, which is founded on the axis of love, portrayed or analysed sometimes as hidden admiration and sometimes as mimic desires borne of arrogance.
Keywords
Sabahattin Ali, Kuyucaklı Yusuf, novel, triangular desire model, mediator, subject, object.