Nusret YILMAZ

History and novel have similar concerns as the experience of dealing with and writing about social events in which man is his subject. The construction of history as stories of important events and people since ancient times has kept these two acts of writing close. The words "story" of the English word "history", which come from the same root, are a concrete indicator of this closeness. The fact that people's individual and social life styles, their struggles in the historical process, and all their actions that made it come into being, are being recorded and transmitted to next generations as concrete evidence of collective memory has forced the world of history and literature to operate on common grounds. It is doubtless that the First World War, one of the most important socio-political experiences of Turkish history, deserves literary as well as historical attention in this context. This study is intended to affect our social history and how it is seen by the Ottoman Empire in locating the authors of the war period to leave the Republic of Turkey creates conditions.  The novels of the authors who wrote during the war years are analyzed with close readings made on individual, social and political themes. Novels in this period have the potential to disappoint readers who believe in the relationship of literature with society because based on the twenty-nine novels examined, the war in question is not mentioned in the works written during the war years. It is quite interesting that no hero of a novel mentions this war and the authors are more interested in the themes of the Servet-i Fünûn period, even though it is considered reasonable that the events that deeply affect societies did not immediately reflect on literature and especially in the novel. The purpose of this study is to examine the possible reasons for this interesting situation in the thematic plane of the novels.

Keywords: World War I, Author, Novel, Theme, Women, Censorship