FERHUNDE KALFA’DA ANLATIM TEKNİĞİNİN PARÇASI OLARAK SEMBOLLEŞTİRME

As a pioneer of the Turkish novel, Halit Ziya Usakligil played a crucial role in the modernization of Turkish literature. Nonetheless, his contribution to the Turkish short story has been neglected by scholars and literary critics, although he has more than two hundred shortstories. However, Usakligil makes great changes in Turkish short story writing by applying new narrative techniques. Constructing multidirectional symbols is in the most important one among them. He sets up symbols in such a way that they include more than one implication and these implications have a consistency as a whole. More importantly, symbols function as a literary device to convey the textual truth which the author constructs conscientiously. Having such symbolization is a corner stone in transition from an omnipotent narrator which forces the reader to be passive within the narration in which the author as signs duty to the reader in reception and consuming of the text. In this article, I focus on one of his well-known stories, Ferhunde Kalfa, and I argue that he brought a new and modern symbolization to Turkish story writing, and made it a basic feature of narrative technique. Key words: Halit Ziya Usakligil, modernization, short story, symbol, narrative technique, Ferhunde Kalfa.