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    Tutunamayanlar is Oğuz Atay's first novel, published in 1971 and 1984. It follows Turgut Özben, a married engineer, who questions his identity after his close friend Selim commits suicide. Turgut had admired Selim's intellectualism and nonconformity. He begins researching Selim's life to understand him better. The novel uses flashbacks and an ironic narrative to represent the accelerated pace of 20th century life. Through exploring Selim's life, Turgut finds or loses his own sense of self. The open ending leaves room for various interpretations.

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    Tutunamayanlar is Oğuz Atay's first novel, published in 1971 and 1984. It follows Turgut Özben, a married engineer, who questions his identity after his close friend Selim commits suicide. Turgut had admired Selim's intellectualism and nonconformity. He begins researching Selim's life to understand him better. The novel uses flashbacks and an ironic narrative to represent the accelerated pace of 20th century life. Through exploring Selim's life, Turgut finds or loses his own sense of self. The open ending leaves room for various interpretations.

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    Tutunamayanlar is Oğuz Atay's first novel, published in 1971 and 1984. It follows Turgut Özben, a married engineer, who questions his identity after his close friend Selim commits suicide. Turgut had admired Selim's intellectualism and nonconformity. He begins researching Selim's life to understand him better. The novel uses flashbacks and an ironic narrative to represent the accelerated pace of 20th century life. Through exploring Selim's life, Turgut finds or loses his own sense of self. The open ending leaves room for various interpretations.

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    Azra Çizmeci

    May 4, 2023

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    Tutunamayanlar By Oğuz Atay

    Tutunamayanlar is Oğuz Atay's first novel. The first publication year of the work was published in two
    volumes in 1971, and in 1984 as a single volume.This is how the novel is translated into English: The
    Disconnected. I see the reason why the novel has reached the top in periodic times as "the effort to fill the
    gap in today's Turkish literature, which is stuck between modernity and post modernity, with 'Oğuz Atay
    Authorship'".

    Turgut Özben is married and has two children. He is an engineer and has a comfortable life. After Selim's
    suicide, he will enter a transformation process and begin to question his own self. Selim is a very close
    friend of Turgut Özben. Turgut's childhood passed in the Second World War. He begins to enlighten
    himself during his university years, and Selim is the person he most pattern oneself on himself. Like
    Selim, he bought many books that he did not want to read a lot. But when he got into business and got
    married, his first goal was to earn money and lead a comfortable life. However, Selim's suicide upset him
    and he tried to find himself by researching his friend's life. Selim is a different personality that is not
    accepted by the society. In the words of Selim, he cannot hold on. That's why Turgut decides that he's
    also an can't hold. In the end, he gives what he wrote to someone he met on the train and disappears. In
    the novel, when Turgut begins to listen to his inner voice, he always resorts to Olric. Olric always
    addresses Turgut as 'my lord'. At the end of the novel, Turgut decides to live only with Olric and goes out
    of life.

    Frames from life are given intermittently. Today's language structure is used. The accelerating life of the
    twentieth century is represented by the short and frequent descriptions in the plot. Time has been
    rewinded with the frequent flashback technique. The narrative is ironic. Literary pleasure is expression,
    not events. The narration is clear and fresh. turgut had found or lost her own self in the light of selim, it is
    a book that you can interpret however you want to interpret it.

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