Linguistic enlightenment
Thinkers consider language as the family tree of nations and the magician of creativity. National languages opened the door to creative thought in Europe. The fundamental theme of their development history is that universal consciousness, rooted in culture, was born with linguistic enlightenment.
The expansion of knowledge areas is also a product of brain enlightenment. After this development, the way was opened to humanity for universal arts that require creativity such as poetry, music and painting.
With the efforts to make the development of innovation even more new in every age, scientists, masters of language, sages and artists who changed the face of the world with colors and drawings were born on that path. The Renaissance was born with these breakthroughs.
PERCEPTIONJean-Jacques Rousseu explained to the scientific world in 1762 that the basis of development is based on "the acceptance of a human being by another human being as a feeling, thinking and similar being to himself" :
"The desire or need to communicate one's feelings and thoughts to another has made man seek ways to do this. These ways can only be derived from the senses, which are the only means by which one man can be on another. Here is the construction of sensible signs to express thought. The inventors of language reasoned in this way, but instinct inspired them with the conclusion."
NARRATIVE LANGUAGEYaşar Kemal considers language to be the universe of narrative art. According to him, the origin of the creation of a modern language lies in the labor of every nation:
“I have always considered language to be a magical power beyond dialogue, a force that cannot be defeated. For me, language is a great universe with infinite power. I believe that language will develop and renew, develop and beautify humanity and our universe, and that it will build and destroy universes.”
In another speech, he touches upon the aspect of language that requires creative effort:
“The land of Çukurova is my own country as well as a country I created for my novels. Just as I created the people, grass, insects, flowers, horses, and birds in my novels, and just as I reshaped the language of Çukurova and transformed it into a language for writing and novels, I also created my own Çukurova.”
PUTTING IT INTO ACTIONYaşar Kemal has put into action his thoughts with the subjects he addresses in his novels, his creative language, and data specific to us. He has told the story of the people of the region he lives in, who are alone with nature and fighting nail to nail with the soil, by combining fairy tales, sayings, and folk expressions.
He brought to life in our minds the peaks of the Taurus Mountains reaching into the sky, the fertile lands of Çukurova, the adobe-walled houses, the Anavarza Castle that time had turned into a pile of stones, with the striking descriptions of the language he created. It is seen that the words that make up his discourse were carefully chosen both when reflecting the moonlit nights and when describing the “bulletproof darkness” of those nights.
What makes him an architect of discourse in his novels? What language tradition did he feed on that made him become a magician of words when he expressed the blindness of ants, the holes of snakes, the wings of butterflies, and the mythical galloping of horses?
Yaşar Kemal not only fed from the national language, but also modernized the language of the Anatolian people, in contrast to the complex language called Ottoman.
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