Özet
DINEYRI PAPAZI AND THE LIFE STORY OF SAFIYE EROL AS AN ALLEGORY OF TURKIYE
Dineyri Papazı, which is the last novel of Safiye Erol, on the one hand tells a love story between a young girl and an old and married man, on the other hand describes stages of the maturation process of the hero. The girl, negates many concepts apparently in contrast, continuously changes the state, and achieves a transcendent position beyond any dichotomies. What moves the hero this position, which also means transformation of her love from a superficial point to the supreme form, is actually a kind of ambiguity like Derrida’s concept of différance. At this framework, the novel suggests a complicated ethical perspective based on transcendency and intuition. Its multilayer structure gives the
opportunity to elaborate the whole process as an allegory of Turkiye. The novel implied that the solution of controversial problems of Turkiye, which also polemical issues in the period of Erol wrote, such as East-West, traditional-modern, profane-secular, natural-cultural, should be solved a transcendental ethic, which takes the power from a divine source.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Différance, love, maturity, ethic, modernization, ambiguity.