A review on story telling of Ahmet Sarı

Born in Dusseldorf in 1970, Ahmet Sarı published his first story in 1992 and has published more than forty works in genres and fields of short stories, poetry, criticism, theory, analysis, research and translation. In his storytelling adventure ranging from postmodernism to magical realism, from horror stories to abnormal moods, the author has seven story books published so far. Ahmet Sarı, in his stories; It deals with the themes of fear, crime, shame, existence, murder, religion, mysticism, philosophy and death. Sarı, who usually gives mature examples of short short stories and stories, knows how to interact with the reader. It is seen that many comtemporary facts determine their stories. The author, who observed the social changes experienced especially in religious matters, expressed this in many of his stories and criticized the points he found wrong. It is seen that Sarı makes various references to many artists, works and ideas in his stories. The story books of Ahmet Sarı, whose life and literary personality we touched upon in our thesis, are as follows: Merhamet Dilercesine Gökyüzüne Bakmak, Başlangıcı Olmayan Bir Şeyin Sonu, Kendi İmdadına da Koşup Gelen Hızır ve Asma Yaprakları Gibi Titreyen El, Musa'nın Derinlerine Düşen Yutkunuş, Sağ Omuz Meleğimin Omzundaki Sağ Omuz Meleği ve Annemi Bir Uğultuya Yasladılar… The texts in these books can be classified as "short stories" and "short short stories". In our study, while examining Ahmet Sarı's stories, we preffered the more common narration method for "short stories". While focusing on the short stories, the method of narratology was followed, but the prominent elements of the story were taken as a basis. Instead of applying the same review template to all short stories, the features of the analyzed text were highlighted.