THE DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF ALIENATION IN ALBERT CAMUS’S NOVEL THE STRANGER AND ZÜLFÜ LİVANELİ’S NOVEL KARDEŞİMİN HİKAYESİ
ALBERT CAMUS’NUN YABANCI VE ZÜLFÜ LİVANELİ’NİN KARDEŞİMİN HİKAYESİ ADLI ROMANLARINDA YABANCILAŞMANIN FARKLI BOYUTLARI

Author : Arzu ÖZYÖN
Number of pages : 599-605

Abstract

In this study, the protagonists of Albert Camus’s novel The Stranger and Zülfü Livaneli’s novel Kardeşimin Hikayesi, Meursault and Mehmet (Ahmet) will be compared in relation to the different dimensions of alienation. In both novels, the concept of alienation is seen in two levels which are self-alienation and alienation of the person from the environment or from the society. Alienation is a person’s sense of being belonged to nowhere, in a way it is the feeling of homelessness. When the self-alienation occurs as in the way of not knowing oneself, seeing oneself in another body, alienation from the environment or society means isolating oneself from society, becoming insensitive to one’s environment, not feeling belonged to the society one lives in. In this context, these two levels of alienation will be analysed by being exemplified from Camus’s The Stranger and Livaneli’s novel called Kardeşimin Hikayesi. Since this is a comparative analysis, the similarities and differences between the two characters and thus two novels in relation to the concept of alienation will also be discussed.

Keywords

Albert Camus, The Stranger, Zülfü Livaneli, Kardeşimin Hikayesi, Alienation.

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