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Art Deco is a decorative art and design movement that was influential internationally between 1919 and 1939, encompassing architecture, interior design, furniture, graphic design, fashion and industrial products. Originally known as “le style moderne” or “Jazz Moderne,” the style acquired its current name following academic reassessments in 1968. The movement derives its name from the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern D

Bauhaus is a design school founded in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century with the aim of integrating art craft and technology through a holistic approach. Its institutional structure and curriculum significantly influenced the development of modern architecture and design adopting an approach responsive to the social cultural and industrial transformations of its time. Its interdisciplinary structure the principle of “form follows function” and the goal of integrating aesthetics with e

Charles Baudelaire is regarded as one of the most influential poets of 19th century French literature. Modern Baudelaire, considered one of the founders of modern poetry, is best known for his work Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil). Industry Following the Revolution, city his life, his approach to modernity, social change, and the inner world of the individual, through distinctive aesthetic perspectives, positions him as one of the first theorists of modernism original.Youth and EducationC

Tutunamayanlar is a novel written by Oğuz Atay and first published in two volumes by Sel Yayınları in 1971–1972. The work emerged during a period in Türkiye when modernization urbanization and the search for individual identity were intensely experienced and is regarded as one of the key examples of the modernist movement in Turkish literature. Set against the chaotic atmosphere of Istanbul the narrative centers on the existential crises the inability to adapt to social norms and the profound lo

Leyla Erbil’s 2011 novel Kalan is a postmodern narrative that interrogates existential dilemmas of the individual collective memory and female identity. The novel takes shape through the protagonist Lahzen’s search for selfhood and offers a multilayered critique of social and political reality.Subject and ThemeKalan centers on Lahzen a female writer living in Istanbul’s Fener neighborhood as she confronts her past and society. The narrative progresses from childhood memories to a quest for truth

René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon (1886–1951) was a French thinker regarded as one of the pioneers of the traditionalist current of thought in the first half of the 20th century. Raised in a Catholic family, he began his education in religious schools and spent his youth immersed in various intellectual and metaphysical circles such as spiritualism, Freemasonry and esotericism. In 1912, after embracing Islam, he adopted the name Abdulwahid Yahya and, following his initiation into the Shadhiliyya Suf

Yusuf Atılgan (1921–1989) is one of the pioneering novelists and short story writers of modern Turkish literature. Born in Manisa and educated at the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Istanbul University, the author particularly explored the individual’s loneliness, alienation, communication breakdown and inner conflicts through a modernist lens in Aylak Adam (1959) and Anayurt Oteli (1973). He left behind a significant literary legacy, including the unfinished novel Canistan.Chil

Justice Ağaoğlu’s novel Hayır continues the exploration of the individual’s memory identity and social building position, forming the third installment of the author’s tetralogy Dar Zamanlar. While Ölmeye Yatmak and Bir Düğün Gecesi examined the moral dimensions of memory in the face of individual and collective forgetting, Hayır also addresses the impact of this remembering process on the individual’s mental health.The novel centers on the character Aysel, familiar from previous novels, place.

Oktay Rifat’s 1976 novel Bir Kadının Penceresinden is a work that showcases how a writer known in Turkish literature primarily for his poetic identity developed a unique narrative style in prose. The novel conveys a woman’s position within the patriarchal structure of society, her quest for individual existence, and the gender-based pressures she faces, all narrated through her inner world. At the same time, through its narrative style, it aims to follow an innovative trajectory outside the domi

A Room of One’s Own is an essay by Virginia Woolf that examines the place of women in literary production within historical social and economic contexts. The book argues that for women to engage in literary creation they require economic independence and physical space.Writing and Publication ProcessThe work is based on lectures Woolf delivered in 1928 at the University of Cambridge under the title “Women and Fiction.” These lectures were given at Newnham College and Girton College, and Woolf’s