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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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against oppression, a desire towards freedom in a strict Islamic and non-drinking 
cultural environment
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.
This conversation was published the same year as Yahya Kemal’s 
Kumral Saçlı 
Genç ile Elâ Muhibbe
(The Brown Haired Young Man and his Hazel-eyed Lover) in 
Peyam-ı Edebî 
(Literary News, 32). Niyazi Akı points out the inspiration for both 
dialogues in Euripides’s 
Bacchae
. He also suggests that Yakup Kadri’s dialogue 
resembles Baudelaire’s prose poetry.
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In Yakup Kadri’s lengthy conversation with 
Hasan-Âli Yücel in 1957 however, neither participant explicitly refers to a single 
specific source. But one cannot fail to make an association between not only the title 
but also the allusive form of Baudelaire’s L’Étranger (The Stranger, 1869) and that 
of Yakup Kadri’s dialogue. “Blackhaired Stranger and the Words of the Young Girl 
With the Sparkling Eyes” and further on with 
Yaban
. 
What is striking here is both the notion of estrangement which runs throughout the 
dialogue as well as 
Yaban 
and the use of the figure of Ulysses as a metaphor in both 
these works
.
Ulysses is a traveller who longs to return home but in both works he arrives in an 
environment with which he cannot associate. In 
Yaban 
Şerif Çavuş, the long absent 
soldier who returns home is compared to Ulysses. But Şerif Çavuş returns to a home 
that no longer exists because his wife was not as faithful as Penelope. After ten years 
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Yücel, 269-270 
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Akı, 59-60 

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of absence she thought him dead and remarried and his daughter too was given in 
marriage without his paternal consent.
In the case of the black haired stranger of the dialogue, he ends his long and 
adventurous journey in search of home into a strange and foreign environment. Both 
travellers appear perplexed and extremely tired
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: 
…-- Bir dakika dur; berrak gözlü genç kız! Pek uzaklardan geliyorum; 
hangi yol üstündeyim, nerdeyim, bilmiyorum. Benim sergüzeştim iki kere 
Ülis’in sergüzeştine muadildir; berrak gözlü genç kız. 
--Bedbaht yabancı! 
--Günlerce, heyhat, günlerce yürüdüm;… Berrak gözlü genç kız, sen 
bana söyle ki, şimdi hangi yol üstündeyim? 
--Siyah saçlı yabancı! Vücudün toprak rengini almış, ama, göğsünde 
denizlerin acı kokusu var; sesin ise bir fırtına uğultusu gibi…bu kadar 
yorgunluk üstüne hâlâ ne zinde ne tuvanasın! Demin, stadta 
güreşenlerden hiç farkın yok. 
 
-Wait a minute, you young girl with the sparkling eyes! I come from very 
far; I don’t know which path I am on and where I am. My adventure is 
twice the adventure of Ulysses. 
- Unfortunate stranger!
-I walked for days, alas for days! … Girl with the sparkling eyes tell me, 
you tell me, which path am I on now?
-Black haired stranger! Your body has taken the colour of the earth, but 
your chest has the bitter smell of the sea; as for your voice, it is like the 
howl of a storm… For all that tiredness how fresh and strong you are! 
You are no different from those who were just wrestling in the stadium. 
And here in 
Yaban
Şerif Çavuş is compared to Ulysses
 
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O kadar yorgundular ki, cevap vercekleri yerde, bize tozdan bembeyaz 
olmuş kirpiklerinin arasından ölü gözlerle bakıp geçiyorlardı.
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Yücel, 264 
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Karaosmanoğlu 2006, 134- 

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