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CHAPTER 4 – HALIDE EDIP AND YAKUP KADRI 
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But for the wife of this Anatolian ‘Ulysses’, she had married another 
man long ago. So Sherif Chavush’s ‘Odyssey’ will of necessity be tied 
up here, and tied with a knot that can’t be undone. 
What he had done for ten years? What places had he been? If I ask, 
would he be able to tell me this long adventure? 
Maybe he remembers nothing. He looks like the eventful years have 
flowed over him like water flows over boulder. However, water leaves 
traces on even the hardest rock. Is it possible that an adventure of ten 
years has passed over him without leaving any mark? 
 
During the same conversation with Hasan Âli-Yücel, Yakup Kadri came to the 
conclusion (to paraphrase him) that neo-classicism could not have a place in Turkish 
Literature as Rıza Tevfik had discovered. But this was not because of an inherent 
disposition in Turkish literature. The problem was that Turkish literature could not 
escape from its close associations with Asia. (
Asyalılık
Asianism). Even so, Yakup 
Kadri believed that it was still a matter of education and that, although Hasan-Âli 
Yücel had undertaken its advancement, the undertaking had unfortunately not been 
continued. In the same conversation with Hasan-Âli Yücel, Yakup Kadri lamented
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Fransız kültüründen aculturel Amerikan kültürüne kaymaktayız. Bir defa 
sâbit oluyor ki, Türk kültürü, hakikî kültürün temelleri üzerine 
kurulmamıştır, kurulamayacaktır. Bunun için ölüyorum,. Kötümserim. 
Bir gölge-kültür içinde yaşamakta devam edeceğiz., demek!... 
 
We are now sliding from the French culture to the uncultured American 
culture. Once again it is proved that Turkish culture has not been and 
will not be established on a true culture’s foundations. For this reason I 
am dying. I am pessimistic. We will carry on living in a shadow culture… 
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Yücel, 277:
 Marifet iltifata tabidir/Müşterisiz metâ zayidir. 
Ingeniousness depends on praise/Merchandise 
without a client is lost.
 

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