Abstract
AUTHOR FIGURATION IN AYSEL ÖZAKIN'S NOVEL THE YOUNG GIRL AND DEATH
Bildungsroman, a genre unique to German literature and also called the formation / growth novel, includes all the material and spiritual processes that a person undergoes in the process of forming his identity, while künstlerroman (artist novel), which appears as a subgenre of bildungsroman, deals with all the positive and negative stages that an individual undergoes on the way to becoming an artist. Shortly after the Tanzimat Period, in which the first examples of the novel genre were given, Ahmet Cemil in Halit Ziya's Blue and Black (Mai ve Siyah) is considered to be the first example in which the figuration of the author was focused. In the later periods of Turkish literature, many works that can be described as artist novels were written. The presence of intense traces of the author's reality in the novels in which the artist-writer figurations are at the center also provides the reader with important indicators related to the creation processes, as it means the construction of the novelist's understanding of fiction. One of these novels is by Aysel Özakın (b. 1942) is the subject of a review of The Young Girl and Death (1980) novel. In this novel, the author tries to Decipher the difficulties of becoming both a woman and a writer in the 1970s, as well as the relationships between art, writing, women, sexual identity and society in a fictional context. In this study, the novel of a Young Girl and Death, which is the figure of a female writer, was examined in the context of künstlerroman, and the difficulties experienced by women in the processes of self-existence were tried to be evaluated through the author figuration.
Keywords
Aysel Özakın, The Young Girl and Death, künstlerroman (artist novel), bildungsroman, author figurati
