Surrealism and Reflection on Orhan Duru’s Stories

Abstract

Reality is a problematic that debated for centuries of literary work. This matter of reality was evaluated more likely according to the themes of the work. Creating the center of reality of the social facts and events had drifted the literature world to impasse. Sigmund Freud’s studies on human psychology of the individual with the emergence of a new reality create the foundation to be published surrealist manifesto under the leadership of Andre Breton. Taking on the reality of society and its problems leaves its locating to the individual’s sociological, psychological and intellectual of reality of the world. In an era of reality that is jammed with social issues on Turkish literature, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar and then Sait Faik’s stories with a new understanding of reality would have emerged to belong to individual. This situation brings also the sürrealist tendencies on the story of the 1950 generation. Orhan Duru is the most remarkable storyteller with sürrealist tendencies in his stories in this generation.