WESTERN PORTRAYAL IN “FORBIDDEN LOVE” BY HALID ZIYAUŞAKLIGIL JOINT RESEARCH PAPER
The great Turkish writer Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, who lived between 1865 to 1945, kept his literary fame for decades after his death. This came as a result of his contribution in the modern Turkish Literature. The reason behind this fame is due to his unique works. HalidZiya is considered one of the most important Turkish writers in the twentieth century. He enriched the Turkish literature with several literary works. He is considered in the first position among writers and authors because of the variety of his writing in addition to poetry, especially in the field of writing novels, and short stories. This variety came, in the first place, as a result of his passion toward French literature and the impact of it on him. He had a good knowledge of the western literature. He is considered on of the first Turkish novelists who wrote in the European (Western) style. He wrote literary works that bear the western literature concept. Halid Ziya occupied a high position in the field of prose. He became famous after publishing his novel “Aşk-ı Memnû” or “Forbidden Love”. It is considered one of the most important work among his novels in the history of modern Turkish Literature. Halid Ziya owned a good knowledge in the structure of the Turkish literature and its directions. The novel “Forbidden Love” is considered the best example in the field of literature because it showed his wide scope of knowledge successfully. He explored in this novel a detailed and analytical study of the Turkish grammar. We depend mainly in our research paper on this novel. It studies the different changes in time in the novel which is clear in the field of prose and the artistic work in the TV series nowadays. The novel “Forbidden Love” embodied main characters who are Nihal, Bahlool, Bihter, Adnan, and Basheer. The novel revolved on the marriage between Mr. Adnan Bey, who was a rich businessman living in a Palace in the richest streets in Istanbul, and Mrs. Bihter who was younger than him. The artistic imagery for the western literature started to appear in the modern Turkish literature in the time of organizations which was a very crucial point in the Turkish literature. The influence of the foreign and western principal were clear in the modern Turkish literature, which did not exist before – literally – in the Turkish literature. The use of the diction that had a western source in the later works that appear in the time of organizations and then included in the modern Turkish literature. The portrayal of the French literature in the Turkish literature became possible by the hands of writers who had a great knowledge in the western literature like Şemseddin Sami Frashëri, AbdülhakŞinasi Hisar, and Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil. This is why he was considered one of the important writers who launched the modern Turkish Literature full of western principal. We will study in our research paper this period in details. We will focus on the life of the writer Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil as well as his works and literary characters. This is followed by a study of the most important western portraits or imagery in the novel “Forbidden Love” by the Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil which is the main focus of this research paper because it has a great position in the modern Turkish literature
Keywords: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Forbidden Love, Western Literature, Western Portrayal, Renewal, Modernity, East, West, Novel, Literature, Modern Turkish Literature, Arts Wealth, Intellectuality, Imitation