The hero's journey in Dertli Dolap by Nezihe Araz and in La Poussiere du Monde by Jacques Lacarriere: "Yunus Emre"

"Yunus Emre" is a deep source of wisdom for Turkish society. The light of enlightenment that he lit centuries ago in order to bring the society to high values still continues to illuminate the world today. In Jacques Lacarrière's novel La Poussière du Monde, the hero is "Yunus Emre. After learning the legends about Yunus Emre, Lacarrière, a French writer, constructs a novel in which he makes Yunus Emre a hero. In this novel, we see that the author does not create a fiction based on only what he hears. The author also asks questions that try to understand Yunus Emre from his own cultural framework. On the other hand, Turkish writer Nezihe Araz, who has been influenced by Yunus Emre verses and legends that she has heard since her childhood, constructs her novel Dertli Dolap on the life of Yunus Emre, a hero whom he raised in her heart from her childhood. She conveys Yunus Emre's journey of evolution with a fiction that proceeds through his verses. Yunus Emre is the hero who brings together these two novels at a common point and he is also one of the most important representatives of the journey which a person makes to his\her own essence. According to Carl Gustav Jung , (1875-1961) journey to the essence is another expression way of individualism which is transmitted through archetypes. Based on this view of Jung, Joseph Campbell, offers to understand and express the journey and individualism with in the context of the journey's periods which the hero has experienced and he names this process as "the hero's endless journey". The aim of our study is to determine to what extent "Yunus Emre", who is the comman hero of the two novels by two novelists from different cultures , adapts to hero's journey and to identify the differences between the "Yunus Emre" perceptions of the two novelists within the framework of Joseph Campbell's this model. Key words: Nezihe Araz, Jacques Lacarrière, Dertli Dolap, Dünyanın Tozu, Yunus Emre, Hero, journey.