@article{2018,title={WOMEN’S FREEDOM SEEKING IN THE EXAMPLE OF LEBANESE WRITER LEYLA BA’LEBEKKI’S NOVEL, “I LIVE”},abstractNode={Lebanese writer Layla Balabakki’s first novel Ane Ahya (I Live) was a masterpiece of Arabia women literature. Layla Balabakki who powerfully affected by existentialism is identified as an Arabia Françoise Sagan because of being the first women writer who venture to write women persecution. Novel caused violent reactions when it published in 1958. Novel is seen as a pioneer work, which is a voice of woman, because it unfolds a young woman’s clamour to the word that isn’t unheard before. Ene Ahya (I Live) narrates the story of a Lebanese rebellious young women in the late of 1950’s. Lina who is a daughter of an honourable merchant in Beirut wants to get rid of her family’s traditional rules. She always refuses common rules and she is in a search of freedom and individualism toward the life. In this study, the knowledge of writer’s life and ideology is given. Thereafter, women seeking of individualism and freedom in the novel Ene Ahya (I Live) is analysed.},author={Yeşim FETTAHOĞLU},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}