Yaşar Kemal ve Gabriel Garcia Marquez'i Anmak

Abstract

This article commemorates two late authors taking one novel by each as its subject matter. The first author is Yasar Kemal, whose Ortadirek relates the seasonal migration of peasants towards Cukurova. The second author is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombian Nobel laureate’s A Hundred Years of Solitude narrates the tale of a Latin American village from its inception to its definitive drift in time and space. Kemal criticizes the joint exploitation of peasants’ labour by their feudal village leader and landed gentry through a family’s miserable story. Similarly, Marquez bases his criticism of the colonial abuse of his country on a family’s tragic tale. Both authors resort to fantastic elements to denounce social and economic corruption. Ortadirek ’s chronologic map covers the 1950s while the other novel’s reference to time is indeterminate. This makes the Marquez’s book a challenging read.