Early prose of Taryk Dursun

The  article examines the early prose works of one of the most famous modern Turkish realist writes Taryk Dursun/K. It is emphasized that his creative searches led him to experiments in different trends and directions of the country’s literary life: from socio-psychological prose (the movement of Said Faik) of the 1950s to socially focused (social realism) and politicized (“the novel March 12”) prose of 1960–1970s’s. Special attention is given to changing the style of Taryk Dursun’s works. If in the 1950s the spatial field of his stories was narrowed, and abstract images-symbols (rain, sun, night, eyes, mirror, sky, sea etc.) came to the fore, then in the 1960s–1970s the range of depictions of life expanded, and the images were filled with socio-psychological content. The change in the author’s stylistic paradigm is examined through the example of the formation of images of the main characters – honest, noble people, endowed with a rich inner world, but, as rule, lonely and unhappy. In the 1950s his heroes followed the paths of moral revival, without trying to change the world around them. In the 1960–1970s the heroes of Taryk Dursun are already fighters for social justice, and we are talking about the movement from the spontaneous  protest of a working person (in line the “village prose” of social realism) to the conscious organized struggle of revolutionary-minded student youth (in line with the politicized “the novel March 12”). As a result, it is concluded that the style of Taryk Dursun’s early prose is very diverse and becomes the starting point that forms the basis of his later work.