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CHAPTER 3 – SOME TOPOI IN THE KURTULUŞ EDEBİYATI 
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Reşat Nuri Güntekin, the author, was born in Istanbul in 1889. His father was a 
military medical doctor who was posted to different areas of the country and as a 
result Reşat Nuri was introduced to Anatolia at an early age. He had his primary 
education in Çanakkale and then, as Yakup Kadri did, to İzmir Frères secondary 
school. He spoke good French and enjoyed French Literature. His father had a very 
good library of French, Persian and Arabic literature. From there and after a 
successful competition he enrolled in the Darülfünun, University of Istanbul, Faculty 
of Literature where he graduated from in 1912. In 1913 he taught French at the Bursa 
Sultanisi Girl’s Secondary School. Between 1913-1916 he was inspector in various 
schools in Istanbul. He started his career as a writer after the end of the First World 
War by writing theatre reviews in the 
Zaman
(Time) newspaper (1918-1919). Later 
he had his own plays performed at the Istanbul City Theatre, for example: 
Hançer
(The Dagger) in 1920, 
Eski Rüya
(The Old Dream) in 1921, 
Taş Parçası
(The Spall) 
in 1923. During this time he also published short stories in the periodicals 
Şair 
(The 
Poet)
 
(1918-1919), 
Nedim 
(The Companion)
 
(1919), 
Büyük Mecmua 
(The Great 
Review)
 
(1919) and 
İnci
(The Pearl) (1919), as well as in the humoristic-satirical 
periodical 
Diken
(The Thorn) (1918-1919) and in the paper 
Dersaadet 
(Istanbul) 
(1920). In these, he used either his name or the pen name, Hayrettin Rüştü. In 
addition to this he published two novels, 
Harabelerin Çiçeği
(The Flower of Ruins) 
(1918), his first, and 
Gizli El
(The Hidden Hand) (1920) in 
Zaman 
(Time) under the 
pen name Cemil Nimet and in 
Dersaadet 
under his own name respectively. He 
became truly popular with the publication of his novel 
Çalıkuşu.
He wrote in satirical 
and humoristic periodicals under the pen name 
Yıldız böceği 
(Glow-worm), 
Ateş 
böceği
(Firefly) and 
Ağustos böceği 
(Cicada). Between 1923-1924 he published, 

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