İffet’te Emile Zola Ve Naturalizm Etkisi

Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar is known as one of the main representatives of the naturalist and realist trend in Turkish Literature. There are traces of Naturalism in Hüseyin Rahmi Gurpinar’s high philosophy that he tried to convey to readers by means of novels. In this article, it will be discussed the impact of Naturalism in his novel called Iffet (Chastity). In his work called Experimental Novel, Zola says: “... we are not portraying just to portray, not just for joy. We accept that human cannot be apart from his dress, house, city and country, and he is the sum of all.” When we look at the novels of Hüseyin Rahmi Gurpinar, we can say that a similar view determines the events in story. For example, in his novel named Iffet, all kinds of bad things that happens to İffet and her family are the products of the community and the circumstances they live in. In this study we will firstly examine how Naturalism is defined in western literature, and what are the diffrerent approaches for it, and we will discuss Emile Zola’s Naturalism perspective. After drawing the theoretical framework, this study aims to discuss the affect of Naturalism on his novel Iffet, and some conflicts with Naturalism in that novel.