The concept of space in Hakan Günday novels

Traces of underground literature, was formed in the political and social crisis environment that Turkey lived after 1980. In 1990s underground literature took its place in Turkish literature as a prominent movement. After 2000s Hakan Günday has become one of the most important names of the underground literature. In his novels Hakan Günday, opposes to social ethics with anti-heroes, marriage and family institutions. He criticizes modernization and Westernization with only characters who have no value at the center of sexuality and violence. The author describes the combination of harsh style and lonely characters, their isolation from the rest of society and their journey to nothingness. Hakan Günday's in novels, the most important conclusion about the place is that the characters do not feel like they belong anywhere. In this study, the novels written by Hakan Günday that carrying the features of underground literature are examined. In the light of the data obtained, this lack of belonging in the places mentioned in the novels of Hakan Günday has been analyzed and explained. First of all, the summary of the novels are given then the inferences about the places are presented in the novels. In the context of space concept; the underground values that heroes offer as character traits; novels have been examined by focusing on not being able to reconcile with life / making sense of existence, idealizing death, preferred loneliness, not being able to socialize and opposing institutions, feeling of lack of belonging, ignoring moral rules, tendency of violence-dependence and non-civilization.