THE INDIVIDUAL BEHIND DAILY LIFE IN TARIK BUĞRA’S “SEAGULL” AND “FAL” STORIES

The individual and the realities of the individual have been a subject addressed by many writers in Turkish literature. Tarık Buğra, one of the modernist story writers who has an important position among the intellectuals and modern literature representatives who have shaped Turkish storytelling with their art, emphasizes the emotional complexities, contradictions and internal struggles of people by deeply examining the inner worlds of the characters with many of his stories written with themes such as the loneliness, inability to hold on, helplessness and depression of the individual behind daily life. In our study, the individual behind daily life will be revealed in the stories of Tarık Buğra, “The Seagull” and “Fal”, who has made significant contributions to Turkish literature and culture by addressing people and beings within their own situations, addressing the emotions of the individual and examining their human feelings with great sensitivity and has led readers to deep thoughts.