A NOVEL OF QUEST OVERSHADOWED BY LOVE: ŞANZELİZE DÜĞÜN SALONU

Abstract

Man is surrounded/ besieged, broadly speaking, by moral values of the societyhe lives in but in the strict sense by his close circle and his family values.However, he gains an identity through his own efforts of quest. These effortsof search for an identity, usually overlap with the values of his social circle butthey sometimes do not and turn to a completely opposite direction. One of thephenomena that people who are in need of the search for identity encounter isSufism.Sufism, is one of the subjects that has always keeps its position in the historyof Islamic philosophy. It promises a mental tranquillity towards the individualduring the pursuit of self. Besides, Sufism aims to turn its followers’ lives intoa focus of some set of values by surrounding them with life styles which havetheir own forms. In addition, Islamic mysticism and ‘dergah’ life, possessinga thousand-year-old tradition in Islamic societies with different names andperceptions also become a subject of literature.Şanzelize Düğün Salonu (2015) is a novel about people who belong to adervish convent in Istanbul. It narrates the story of a character receiving thevalues of mysticism from his ‘sheikh’ father and his fallacies meeting the outerspace. The hero of the novel, who is endowed with traditional dervish culture,begins to question both his tradition and his past owing to modern life in theouter world.In this study, the elements and the stages of identity construction of thecharacter, who has initially been destroyed but then cured psychologically bylove, in Şanzelize Düğün Salonu will be analysed with an analytical approach.

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