Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, cilt.57, sa.-, ss.109-117, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
The term, grotesque is a technique that is used to unite oppositions such as comedy and horror, pleasure and repulsion.
Originally appearing in Renaissance art, the grotesque was also employed in literature. Thomas Mann claims that “the
grotesque is its most genuine style” (1991: 13), because of the sense of loss, alienation and meaninglessness caused by the
Great War. Regarding alienation, two protagonists Hazel Motes from Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood and Turgut Özben from
Oğuz Atay’s Tutunamayanlar are significant with their almost insane societal representations. In this paper, two novels from
two different countries will be analysed to observe the elements of the grotesque and revealed how the authors applied the
elements in their novels to criticise and satirize the social and political corruption in their own countries.