Abstract
Comparison of ‘Abdurrahman Munîf's Tale of a Letter from Beyond Borders and Refik Halid Karay's Tale of Eskici
Exile appears as a kind of punishment tool that has been used since ancient times. If
people are forced to leave their homeland for various reasons, they will have to live a
life of exile where they go. The place of exile can sometimes be a different country from
the country you were born in, sometimes in the same country but in different countries.
Regardless of the conditions under which exile is experienced, the feeling it makes
people feel is the same. This feeling is a blend of desperation and longing. In this study;
‘Abdurrahman Munîf's story A Letter Beyond Borders and Refik Halid Karay's stories
called Eskici were handled comparatively. These stories in the story selections will be
examined in general under the theme of "exile". The main element that brings authors born
and raised in two different cultures and living different lives for a search in this work is
the homesickness. Since the stories of the authors selected from two different cultures will
be analyzed comparatively, it is also one of the aims of the study to reveal the similarities
and differences in the attitudes of different social structures towards events. The stories
of the authors who have gained fame in two different Eastern societies, namely Arab and
Turkish, through two important works of Arabic and Turkish literature, were subjected
to various classifications on the themes of homesickness and exile, and compared with
the pluralist method of analysis. In this study, firstly, the summary of the stories called
A Letter Beyond Borders and Eskici will be analyzed under the headings of time, place,
narrator and point of view, attention and criticism about the story. Subsequently, stories
will be compared and attitudes and behaviors of different societies against similar events
will be examined.
Keywords
‘Abdurrahman Munîf, Refik Halit Karay, Story, A Letter Beyond Borders, The Junk.
