Persons of Turkish Literature - Oğuz Atay

Oğuz Atay was born on October 12, 1934 in Kastamonu Inebolu. On 13 December 1977 he lost his life in Istanbul. Novelist, story and game writer. He completed his secondary education in 1951 at Maarif College in Ankara. In 1957, he completed the Civil Engineering Faculty of Istanbul Technical University. In 1960, he became a lecturer at Istanbul State Engineering and Architecture Academy Construction Department (Today Yıldız University). In 1975 he became associate professor.

Oğuz Atay also wrote a professional book called Topography. Stories and writings were published in New Magazine and Abstract after 1971. Due to a tumor in his brain, he was treated for a while in London, but he could not get it.

His first novel, "Untouchable," approached the petty bourgeois world ironically. The events in the book are punished by the killing of a genie who hates death from the values ​​of the petty bourgeois world. In this work, he has skillfully utilized some of the techniques of the innovative and contemporary Western novel.

Oğuz Atay created a complicated reality on the plane of texts consisting of inner talk, flow of consciousness, dreams and different discourses. The details, observations and associations scattered within the novel are elements of a conscious fiction that dominates the whole. In the story book "Waiting for fear", he also focused on psychological analysis.

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