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CHAPTER 5 – TWO SHIRTS OF FLAME 
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A definitive reconciliation of this evidence with Halide Edip’s statement
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that 
Yakup Kadri began but did not finish his novel is difficult. Obviously he did not 
publish a completed novel with that title and we cannot tell whether Halide Edip’s 
statement was simply an inference from this fact or whether she knew more. But the 
four page fragment which is headed “the last pages of the novel ‘Ateşten Gömlek’” 
reads like a closing scene. There is obviously a number of possibilities: Yakup Kadri 
could have completed a draft with which he was dissatisfied or he could have filled 
in some parts of his outline, such as the concluding scene which survives, but not 
others.
Halide Edip wrote that her novel was written in two months when she returned to 
Ankara on leave from Akşehir
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. This would place the composition in the autumn of 
1921. Since the excerpt from Yakup Kadri’s 
Ateşten Gömlek 
was printed on 5th 
January 1922 and since at some point it reached its last pages, as explicitly indicated 
in the longer of the two manuscript fragments, it may be that Halide Edip’s 
prediction that she would finish before he did proved incorrect. What also proved 
incorrect, unfortunately, was her hope that one day both novels would be read side 
by side. The relationship between her
 Ateşten Gömlek 
and the fragments of Yakup 
Kadri’s as well as the relationship between both of them and 
Yaban 
on the one hand 
and real experience, as recorded in 
The Turkish Ordeal
and in 
Ergenekon,
is 
intriguing and we shall proceed to discuss it.
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Adıvar 1924, xix, footnote 1 
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Kansu 41, Adıvar 1924 xxi-xxii 

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