İnsan Meddücezri: A thesis novel in Hilmi Ziya Ülken's world of thought

This thesis embraces Hilmi Ziya Ülken's two novels of a roman-fleuve series published under the title of İnsan Meddücezri, written in the 30s and 40s; Yarım Adam was serialized in 1936 and published in 1943 as a novel, and Posta Yolu was published in 1941. The study discusses the place of these novels among Ülken's interdisciplinary works, including his research in sociology, philosophy and history within the context of thesis novel. Through the thesis, reflections of the concept of "humane patriotism", which Ülken discussed in Aşk Ahlakı (1931) and İnsani Vatanperverlik (1933) and interpreted as the highest moral value, to İnsan Meddücezri are evaluated. Among Hilmi Ziya Ülken's impartial academic works, the novels allow for the writer to present his personal ideas. This phenomenon is observed through the notion of psycho-narration that Transparent Minds Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction and through the fictionalization of characters and dialogues, the role of the repetitions and the position of the narrator that Susan Rubin Suleiman reveals in Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre as the elements of thesis novel. The paper will examine the influence of common notions of Spinoza to the Anatolian narrative within the novels. Consequently, it will be concluded that İnsan Meddücezri makes up for Ülken's academic works and looms large as novels Ülken has written with insights as an artist/a man of letters, to understand the society profoundly and with all its contradictions.