Social realism and structure, theme, narration in Sadri Ertem's novels and stories

Our study titled ?Social Realism and Structure, Theme and Narration inSadri Ertem?s Novels and Stories? questions Ertem?s relation with theunderstanding of social realism. It analyzes novels and srtories of SadriErtem (1898/1900-1943) in terms of structure, theme and narration and putsforward how the understanding of socialist realism is reflected on his works.First of all, our thesis is not a biographic work. Forthis reason, his lifehas not been mentioned. At the center lies his novels and stories which havebeen analyzed one by one with an analytical method. In broad sense itdescribes Sadri Ertem as a literary figure, and in the narrow sense, hissocialist realist aspect is underlined.While analyzing structure in works, the series of events, interpersonalencounters and the resultant conflicts are focused, and taking these as thebasis, a conclusion is reached on the themes.Beside the afore mentioned analysis, his literary views on socialistrealism is scrutinized, as a result of which his socialist realist tendencies arerevealed in a philosophical frame. So, throughout the analysis, how histhoughts underlying his works are put into practice is traced.In conclusion, it is seen that Ertem has socialist realist tendenciesgiven varied features of his, that he displays a socialist realist stance fromtime to time, that in the last analysis, he tries to harmonize the understandingof socialist realism with the principles of the Republic, and that he has servedas the spokesperson of a formal ideology while producing socialist realistworks of art.Key words: Sadri Ertem, socialist realism, structure/theme/narration, literaryfigure, formal ideology.