Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi (Jun 2024)

Manifestation of fact and document as two independent events in sureyya agaoglu's work “one life has passed just like this”

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.30563/turklad.1474321
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 21 – 34

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Sureyya Agaoğlu, one of the most important figures in the history of Turkey, wrote a work entitled “One Life Has Passed Just Like This” is the author's second memoir. It is interesting that the first female human rights defender Sureyya Agaoğlu's work “One Life Has Passed Just Like This” written creatively based on the facts of her life, shows the fact and the document as two independent events. She managed to illuminate not only a certain part of the writer's own life, but also the lives of other historical figures. Among the historical personalities, one of the people who attract attention is the narration of the events about the author's father - Ahmet bey Agaoglu, based on real facts. In Sureyya Agaoglu's work, the fact from reality acts as a catalyst for literary creativity. The author's self-reflection encourages the concretization of the genre of the work. Because the ability of the subject, i.e. the writer, to put the understanding of her personal thoughts about the realities, as well as his activity, into the form of a rich prose, draws attention to the genre of the work. The work written by Sureyya Agaoğlu called “One Life Has Passed Just Like This” is valuable as a work written in the genre of memoirs. In addition to the plot line based on Sureyya Agaoğlu's life history, she added many incidents taken from his childhood and youth. In addition to the perfect image of the author, the images of historical figures (Ataturk, Ahmet Bey Agaoglu, Samad Agaoglu, etc.) whose services have been invaluable in the blood memory of the people are of interest. Sureyya Agaoğlu, with his work “One Life Has Passed Just Like This”, who was able to become a political figure with a unique artistic understanding in the blood memory of the Turkish world, who was able to become the protector of women and children in the most difficult moments of his people was able to confirm that she had a lawyer. Sureyya Agaoğlu managed not to lose author “I” in this work presented to the readers and created a memorable image as an author.

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