Abstract
THREE ERAS, THREE MANSIONS, THREE MEETINGS IN MİTHAT CEMAL KUNTAY’S ÜÇ İSTANBUL NOVEL
In daily life, people organise meetings for purposes such as entertainment, celebration, discussion, exchange of information and decision-making. In literary works, which are a reflection of real life, it is observed that people come together for different purposes and in different types of meetings. In this study, the question of what kind of functions the meeting has in novels, one of the modern narrative genres, will be answered by analysing three important meetings in Mithat Cemal Kuntay’s novel Üç İstanbul. In this novel, in which the Abdülhamit II, Constitutional Monarchy and Armistice periods are described, people from different segments of society gather in the mansions of the powerful people of the period and discuss the current issues of the period they live in. Since the novel contains such rich sociological material, the meetings in the novel will also be evaluated in terms of the criticised features of the period, the place and the people. Finally, the meetings in the novel will be analysed according to Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin’s “carnivalisation” theory and the carnivalesque elements in the meetings will be determined.
Keywords
Mithat Cemal Kuntay, Üç İstanbul, meeting, mansion, carnivalization.