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HIS EVALUATION OF OTHER ARTISTS
Halide Edip Adıvar (1884-1964)
"It is possible to divide Halide Edip's works into three both chronologically and ideologically:
"1. The Period of Ruined Temples
"2. The period in which she displayed the most powerful productivity with her novel 'Mevud Hüküm' ('Ateşten Gömlek' is also included in this period as a transition novel)
"3. 'Sinekli Bakkal' and other last novels.
"In the first period, the dominant content is longing for the past, a lyrical and a mystic, philosophical idealism.
"The dominant element in the second period is the struggle for sex distinction. The male and female sexes are two polar enemies in relation to each other.
"In the third period, the social problems according to her point of view are foregrounded.
"But we see the offspring of the third period in terms of social consideration¾perhaps different in terms of content¾in the second period, just as there is the offspring of the first period in the second one. That is to say we see the struggle between the male and the female as a seed in the first period. This seed becomes the dominant element in the second period. But the nationalist and past-lover Halide Edip can also be found in the Pan-Turanist Halide Edip. In the third period, the struggle between the male and the female is taken into the background and the Pan-Turanist, chauvinist, non-nationalist but everlasting past-lover, reformist, democrat, Ghandist Halide Edip brings social problems into the foreground... It should also be mentioned that even in the obvious example of the second period, 'Mevud Hüküm', we see the reformist, socialist doctrines among all the enmity of the male and the female. Thus if we sum up, after sexual enmity found utmost development in the second period, today it is seen as rubble, remnants, and sediment. What is foregrounded today is the novel that has a social thesis, that nourishes a social claim and this element is developed continuously with some alterations from the first period up to today".
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