Novel and eroticism: Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Refik Halid Karay, Kemal Tahir, Suat Derviş, Peyami Safa

"Novel and Eroticism: Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Refik Halid Karay, Kemal Tahir, Suat Derviş, Peyami Safa" highlights that eroticism is not confined to the realm of sexuality; Rather, it serves as a crucial medium in the processes of self-awareness, transcendence, and liberation. The text demonstrates how eroticism is shaped through the conceptualizations of thinkers such as Plato, Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, and Octavio Paz, and focuses on how the novel represents this concept. In, eroticism is not merely a depiction of sensual pleasures, but also a mode through which individuals confront death, power, literature and the sacred. The novel, as a literary form that transforms individual experiences into narrative meaning, reflects the narrative potential of eroticism. Especially in the modern Turkish novel, eroticism becomes an act of rebellion against traditional moral norms, a reckoning with the self, and a means of escaping socially imposed roles. In this sense, literature not only reveals the repressed aspects of eroticism but also transforms them into a symbolic and aesthetic language. Themes such as sacrifice, celebration, transgression, and death constitute the structural backbone of erotic narratives in fiction. Eroticism appears not only as desire but also as an existential challenge and a return toward the sacred.