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CHAPTER 5 – TWO SHIRTS OF FLAME 
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We shall return to the relationship between
 Yaban 
and 
Ateşten Gömlek 
below. For 
now we need to note that the critics have interpreted Yakup Kadri’s words too 
strictly. For example, Azade Seyhan writes that “Karaosmanoğlu never wrote his 
“Shirt of Fire”
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. In fact Yakup Kadri did write a Shirt of Fire. A short excerpt was 
published in
 Dergâh
on 5th January 1922
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. The excerpt was reprinted in Latin script 
in the posthumous collection 
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu Hikâyeler
edited by 
Niyazi Akı and first published in 1985. It is easy to overlook its origins in 
Ateşten 
Gömlek 
because the excerpt is presented as a short story with the title 
‘Kadın ve 
Ukubet’
(Woman and Punishment), as it was the title of the first instalment in 
Dergâh. 
This was preceded by an editorial note by the editors of 
Dergâh
entitled 
Ateşten Gömlek.
In addition the Yakup Kadri archive includes six pages, hitherto unnoticed
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, of an 
undated manuscript in the Arabic script marked as relating to a novel entitled, 
Ateşten Gömlek
. Four pages, (numbered with Roman numerals) of a fair copy in 
pencil are labelled in the same hand, “The last pages of the novel ‘
Ateşten Gömlek’”. 
The other two pages, again undated, and on different paper numbered with western 
numerals are labelled, “Belonging to the novel ‘
Ateşten Gömlek’”
.
 
A transcription 
and translation is set out in Appendices 1 and 2 respectively.
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Seyhan 2008, 56 
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Kudret II, 150 gives the reference. Hüyügüzel, 107 refers to the short story, gives a short description of its 
content but does not relate it to the novel.
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I am grateful to Sevengül Sönmez for making the archives available to me. 

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