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“Little Person” Views from Füruzan's Window: The Story of “Edirne’nin Köprüleri” in the Context of Immigrants' Lives
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Füruzan, who is evalueted a classic in modern Turkish literature, has written many works in various literary genres, especially stories, throughout her long artistic life. She became the first female writer to receive the 1971 Sait Faik Story Award with her first story book, Parasız Yatılı and over the years, this work has almost become her pseudonym. Füruzan, who produces literary works in different genres such as novels, poems, essays, travels and interviews and is closely interested in different branches of art such as painting, music and cinema, stands out as a story writer despite this wide range. Immigration, the problems of immigrants, poverty, children and the difficulties experienced by women have been the main topics of her stories. In the world of literature, every human issue finds a place for itself with the original perspectives of artists and the framework of fictional reality. In this context, the exchange and migration movements that accompanied the troubled processes in our recent history have been addressed by artists as one of the important topics of literature. Immigrants have always had a special place in Füruzan's "little person"-centered world, which adopts the situation story approach. In this context, her story "Edirne’nin Köprüleri" is one of the successful examples that focuses on the problems of immigrants, their efforts to hold on to life with bitter hope, and their psychology. In "Edirne'nin Köprüleri", one of the highly recognized stories of the author, which is included in her first work titled "Parasız Yatılı", the issue of migration is treated as a bitter face of the universal human reality. An immigration life experienced by three generations together is presented. Although a common life is lived, attention is drawn to the differences in how each generation perceives and positions this experience. In this study, the difficulties experienced by immigrants with their lives divided between contradictions such as past and present, homeland and abroad, us and them, wealth and poverty, and their attitudes towards these difficulties are examined.