Literary form and ethics in Sait Faik Abasıyanık's short stories

This dissertation argues that the literary form, in other words aesthetics, of Sait Faik Abasıyanık's short stories forms the ethics of his works. In this study, I read closely the stories written by the realistic aesthetics, impressionistic and queer stories by Sait Faik. It is stated that he defends the good against the bad, shows the inner worlds of his characters by creating multidimensional, authentical individuals in the stories which Sait Faik stays in the margins of representation by using narration tools of realistic aesthetics. On the other hand, in the stories written by genre conventions of impressionistic story by using first person narrator, breaking the narrative structure, communicating the narratee utters no absolute experience and calls for empathy with "the other". In his queer stories he writes the agonies, disappointments, and loneliness of his characters in a world where "the queer utopia" is not realized yet, his style that depends on the dialogue with the narratee is also a call for the dream of a queer world. Sait Faik is mostly evaluated by the content of his stories, yet this study aims at examining aesthetics of them in relation to their ethics.