Yapısalcı Eleştiri Odağında Osman Türkay'ın Tiyatroları Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Abstract

Osman Türkay is a world-renowned Turkish Cypriot poet, playwright and essayist, who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize twice for his poems written in English, and whose books have been published in more than thirty languages. Türkay, who received awards for his poems, closely followed Turkish and world literature, studies in the fields of science, art and philosophy, and wrote many criticisms, essays and articles in important journals and newspapers. Türkay's opus Pyramid Trio, which has received numerous awards from many countries of the world, has three different plays, "Death in the Chest", "A Cosmic Psychodrama" and "Battle After the Apocalypse", which complement each other and are about Egyptian history and mythology. Türkay's second play, The Pain of Immortality, adopts its subject from Babylonian and Sumerian mythology and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Mythological, philosophical, psychoanalytic, ecological, intertextual etc. The reading of these narratives, which are also open to readings, with the structuralist method has been found useful in terms of reinforcing the visibility of semantics, structures that establish semantics, and dichotomies. The works dealing with the oldest myths and narratives of humanity extended these first narratives until after the apocalypse.