PROBLEMATYKA SPOŁECZNA W TWÓRCZOŚCI HAKANA GÜNDAYA NA PRZYKŁADZIE WYBRANYCH POWIEŚCI

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present an image of a fragment of Turkish society that emerges from the work of Hakan Günday on the basis of two novels by the author: “Az” (Polish title "Mało" published by Sonia Draga, transl. D. Haftka-Işık, 2016) and “Daha” (Polish title "Jeszcze", published by Sonia Draga, transl. D. Haftka-Işık, 2018).

Hakan Günday (born 1976) is a contemporary Turkish prose writer, screenwriter and playwright whose work in Turkey is classified as yeraltı edebiyatı (literally 'underground literature'). His novel "Daha", for which Günday was awarded Prix Médicis (2015, Paris, France) in the category of foreign prose, deals with current social issues, including, in particular, the issue of illegal emigrants and smuggling of people. Günday's novel reveals the following themes: the hell of war and the drama of refugees, the problem of soldiers' children, human, arms and drug trafficking, violence, rape, exploitation, all forms of discrimination, social inequality, demoralization, lawlessness, exclusion, human impotence, indifference, and confusion and loneliness.

Thanks to the social issues raised in his work, Hakan Günday's novels can be read in the socio-moral dimension, with the emphasis that the emerging image is not a panorama or cross-section of Turkish society, but only shows its excerpt, emphasizing the occurrence of certain phenomena and showing their consequences in relation to individuals.