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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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Motifleri bu kadar orijinal olan, tekniği bu kadar ustaca olan bir eser 
Türkiye dışındaki san’at sevenleri de doyurabilir. 
Napoleon, Göthe’yi ilk gördüğü zaman: 
“İşte bir insan” demiş… 
Yaban’ı okuyan her ileri türk münevveri de:
İşte bir roman” diyecektir… 
Varol! Yakup usta, ellerin nurdan kopsun!.. 
 
In my opinion, 
Yaban
is the first original Turkish novel. 
This work can also be read with the same pleasure and interest in 
whichever foreign language it is translated.
Yaban is the first open window of Turkish literature to world literature.
A work whose motifs are so original and its technique so skilful can 
satisfy the lovers of art outside Turkey. 
When Napoleon first saw Goethe he said…: 
“Here is a man”. 
Every progressive intellectual who reads Yaban would say:
Here is a novel! 
Long live! Master Yakup, may your hands be blessed in light!
Most subsequent critics took fundamentally the same approach by regarding the 
description of village life as realistic and Ahmet Celal’s difficulties with the villagers 
as a symbol of the gap between the intellectual and the peasant. They differed only in 
their judgement of this. Some condemned Yakup Kadri for presenting a 
contemptuous view of the peasantry, others, most influentially Berna Moran
11
, who 
applied a very close textual analysis, concluded (as summarized by Jale Parla
12
) that 
the novel is a defence of the totalitarian measures required from the Kemalist regime 
to lift the peasantry out of the condition described. Parla herself takes a more 
complex approach which relates Atatürk’s self-described role as the deliverer of the 
11
Moran I, 2016, 201-218 
12
Parla 2007, 16

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