Betül HASTAOĞLU ÖZBEK

The twentieth century is accepted as one of the periods in which the world entered a different course due to some events and developments. Undoubtedly, the outbreak of World War II; social, political, economic changes and developments in technology and science are effective in that. The artist who deeply feels the depression of this age in which many of the material and spiritual values have lost their meaning, becomes popular with short-short stories that fit the fast consumption needs of human who has to compete against time and by acting individually, aims to shed light on the problems of all mankind. Accordingly, short-short stories, contain the scream of the artist who is trapped in the deterioration and corruption of modern times. The genre has a lot of representatives in world literature, in which the strongest name in Turkish literature is Ferit Edgü. The true success of the artist, who wrote many different types of artifacts, stands out in his short-short stories. In his individual based stories, he goes on an existential line by including universal trails, with solving the meaning of the world and of life. In his short-short story titled “Gece Bekçisi”, he symbolizes any value of the world via the watchman, and the time that flows via the head character who transfers the speech to the reader. He impresses on the displacement of the individual, who has the awareness of his heading for death, with confronting two opposite characters. This shows the anxiety of modern human regarding the main character who feels not holding on to anything/anywhere and the feeling of nothingness with awareness of being mortal.

Key Words: Short-Short Story, Ferit Edgü, Night, Watchman, Displacement, Death.