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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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is weak with the main characters remaining 
titrek ve dağanık
(shaky and confused) 
until the end. Nonetheless he praised Yakup Kadri as a 
nesrin şairi
(prose poet) and 
gave him credit for elevating the genre of prose poetry to new heights
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. He notes 
the chronological sweep of the novels from 
Kiralık Konak 
(1922) where the plot 
unfolds during the period of the Tanzimat, through 
Hüküm Gecesi 
(1927) set in the 
period of the Committee for Union and Progress, 
Sodom ve Gomore 
(1928) in the 
period of the Armistice,
 Yaban 
(1932) during the War of Independence to 
Ankara 
(1934) in the period after the victory and compares it to a symphony
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.
Most critics, as Ali Serdar has noted
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, look at Yakup Kadri and his work primarily 
through political, social and historical factors and all see a point of 
kopuş 
(a break) 
between one period and another or from one phase to another. For example, Yakup 
Kadri during Fecr-i Atî period is seen as an individualist because he stands for art for 
art’s sake and then transforms himself into a socialist because he occupies his novels 
with social problems. As this chapter suggests, this is to overlook the continuities in 
his work and the enduring effect of the Nev Yunanîlik period on his subsequent 
outlook.
As will be developed more extensively in Chapters 7 and 8, a thematic unity can also 
be found throughout his work in the problem of the relation between East and West. 
This encompasses not only social relations as depicted in 
Kiralık Konak
, political 
programmes as in 
Ankara
, religion and culture as in 
Ergenekon 
but also literary form 
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Sevük 367 
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Sevük 370-371 
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Serdar 3-11 

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