The Desire of the Main Figures to Go and the Feeling of Uncanny in Daniel Kehlmann's "You Should Have Left" and Hakan Bıçakcı's "Spare Time"

The Desire of the Main Figures to Go and the Feeling of Uncanny in Daniel Kehlmann's "You Should Have Left" and Hakan Bıçakcı's "Spare Time"

The feeling of uncanny generally refers to a mood that is shaped by a feeling that the person does not feel safe, that is unfamiliar to him, that frightens him and that leads him to uneasiness, that is accompanied by extraordinary images and experiences that he cannot make sense of. In addition to the extraordinary realization of experiences that cannot occur in real life under normal conditions, there may be experiences that cannot be attributed specifically to the uncanny feature, but that create a psychically uncanny feeling in the person, and the causes of such uncanny experiences can be specifically associated with the mind and psychological state of the person in question. For this reason, definite boundaries are not drawn on what the uncanny is or what will cause uncanny feelings in people. The uncanny also appears in fiction in literary works. In the works that we discuss in this article, the uncanny shows itself from time to time as the experiences of the main figures as a reflection of the mental uneasiness of the main figures and their feeling of not belonging to the world. In this article, Munich-born writer Daniel Kehlmann's work titled You Should Have Left (ger. Du hättest gehen sollen), which was published in 2016, and Turkish writer Hakan Bıçakcı's work Spare Time (tur. Boş Zaman), which was first published in 2004, will be compared and discussed in terms of the questioning of the existence of the main figures, who are married and have a child at a young age, their thoughts to move away from their current lives, their experiences and psychological states, that have similarities and that are shaped around the feeling of "uncanny" as a reflection of these thoughts and fears.

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