ANALYSIS OF MUALLİM NACİ'S YAZMIŞ BULUNDUM AND IT'S TEXT
MUALLİM NACİ'NİN YAZMIŞ BULUNDUM ADLI ESERİNİN İNCELEMESİ VE METNİ

Author : Nilgün BÜYÜKER GÜNGÖR
Number of pages : 450-470

Abstract

Muallim Naci [d.1893], who is cautious about the innovation of the Tanzimat period, publishes fourteen literary letters he sent to the Tercüman-ı Hakikat newspaper and the answers he received from him in 1884 under the name of Yazmış Bulundum. These correspondence, shared with the belief that it will be useful in raising and directing young people who are enthusiastic to literature, is remarkable in terms of reflecting the "criticism" understanding in Turkish literature and the development of the "letter" writing as a literary genre. Yazmış Bulundum also contains important information and findings regarding the literary taste and attitude of Naci and his period. Yazmış Bulundum, one of the works that sheds light on the roots of the simplification tendency in the Tanzimat era and shows how the border between modernity and tradition started in Turkish literature, is also interesting in terms of showing the literacy of Naci, who is a poet of the transition between old and new. It is expected with a great excitement and desire that the "new", which will be dominated by a plain, open, fluent language and style, will be respected and widespread in this period, which is confronted even with the beauty of the "old". Naci, who writes ghazals and rubais with the pseudonym "Mesud-ı Harabati", is in line with this new-emerging face of Ottoman literature rather than his verse and is in demand. Naci, who cannot leave the "old" while trying to fall under the stream of "New", is a literal poet. In this article, Naci's work named Yazmış Bulundum is discussed and the work is transferred to Latin letters.

Keywords

Muallim Naci, Yazmış Bulundum, modern Turkish literature, literary criticism, literary letter.

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