@article{2013,title={A STUDY ON KEMAL TAHİR’S NOVEL “THE HUNCHBACK OF THE VILLAGE” IN TERMS OF SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE},abstractNode={Kemal Tahir Demir (1910-1973) is a prominent literary figure who has mirrored the political, social, cultural and economic structure of a certain historical period thorough his novels. In this respect, the author, in terms of social engineering, has a significant place in the literature of the the Republican Period. Among the author’s novel, Köyün Kamburu (1959) (The Hunchback of the Village) can be considered as the one which preliminary needs to be studied in terms of literary criticism. Kemal Tahir - who in general treats the social, historical and political events; socio-cultural and socio-economic conditions of the rural parts of Anatolia – treats in particular the realities and adventures of peasants in terms of the state-agha-folk relations. These relations are built on sociological and economic bases. This novel of Kemal Tahir is, in a way, an artistic concretisation of social, cultural and economical history of the society through various characterizations and conceptions most of which narrate the dynamics of real lives of the people living in rural parts of the country. In this study, document-searching method has been used. In the first part the terms “literature” and “sociology” have been defined. In the light of both disciplines, the art of fiction and its signs have been highlighted. As for the second part; there are two folds that we have underlined: first; we have revealed the political, social and cultural conditions of the historical period that the novel has taken as its subject matter, and secondly in terms of the sociology of family, we have exposed the issue of how the realities of the rural parts of the country have been treated in the novel. As a result we came to a conclusion that “Köyün kamburu” is a persuasive,shocking and tragicomic novel which exposes the mentality of the traditional rural life, peasantry and the various religious believes. },author={Kemal EROL},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}