Structure and theme in Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar's novels

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar; The artist, who produces works in many genres such as stories, poems, essays, reviews and criticism, draws attention with his novels that make him feel his identity as an important poet in Turkish literature. The author, who sees his novels and stories as no different from his understanding of poetry, strives to "establish a dream state in language". Tanpınar has an important role in the Turkish novel gaining a modern identity. He opened a different path in the historical development of the novel with the techniques he used unconventional in the novel genre, with the elements of "time" and "place" with the melting of the plot with the issues he wanted to convey and brought to the fore. Apart from the innovations he has made in the technical and structural elements of the novel genre, the author also places the ideas in a more important place than the events by giving the subjects that he is interested in in the novel through the words of the characters in the novel. In this respect, Tanpınar's novels are important with their themes as well as their structure. In the first part of the thesis, Tanpınar's novels were examined in terms of structure. In the said section, the narrative techniques used are also determined while the plot, place, time, people, narrator and language are discussed in terms of narration. In the second part, the novels were examined in terms of theme and subheadings such as freedom, East-West problematic, women, love, loneliness, sexuality, art and death were created. Key Words: Novel, Structure Elements, Theme, Expression Techniques.