Comparison of Franz Kafka?s and Yusuf Atılgan?s novels on the base of existentialism

The purpose of his sudy is that existentialist elements at Kafka?s (being a czech uniter from German literature) works named as ?Die Verwandlug?? and ?Der Process? and Yusuf Atılgan?s (being from Turkish literarture) works named as ?Aylak Adam? and ?Anayurt Oteli? analyze. Besides it evaluates the comparison of both writers lives and literary personalities.Existentialism is a thinking style that includes themes related with the existential problems of a uman as loneliness, alienation, anxiety, absurd, hope/hopelesness. Although there isn?t any systematical thinking structures it can be said that there are some common principles when the ideas of the leaders are thought.It is seen that common concepts, as personal morality free choice, anxiety, authentic existential mode, emphasize subjectivity of person.Franz Kafka is one of the extraordinary writers writers in 20th century, usually performs existential themes in presentation at modernism. His own expression and practice style is called as Kafkaesque. Kafka unified person?s existential problems with phenomenons as bureaucrary and hierarchy in this structure.It is seen that the traces of existentialism philosophy at the novels of Yusuf Atılgan, in 1950s having in an important place in Turkish Literature.Atılgan, who unified reality of persona with irony in the corridors of person?s psychological dimension, is similar to Kafka by the ways of discussing the existentialist themes.Common sides at the analysed novels of Yusuf Atılgan, being from Turkish literature and Kafka, being a Czech witer from German literature; ıt shows that Yusuf Atılgan can be effected by Kafka and the similarities in the form of discussing human?s existence problems of two different experiences, cultures and writers.Similarities and differences at the works that have the existentialists traces of Kafka and Atılgan, who are two different writers of modernist literature, display local and universal sides of both a person and literature as a branch of art.