Kuyucaklı Yusuf

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Kuyucaklı Yusuf is a renowned Turkish novel by Sabahattin Ali that portrays the struggles of an orphaned boy in a small Anatolian town, highlighting themes of social injustice and rural life in early 20th-century Turkey.

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Kuyucaklı Yusuf canonical 2
Kuyucaklı Yusuf (1947 film) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literaryWork
novel
adaptation Kuyucaklı Yusuf (1947 film)
linked to: Kuyucaklı Yusuf
adaptationType film adaptation
author Sabahattin Ali
countryOfOrigin Turkey
depicts bureaucratic corruption
landlord-peasant relations
small-town life in Anatolia
genre realist novel
romantic drama
social novel
hasAuthorCitizenship Turkish
hasAuthorName Sabahattin Ali
hasCulturalImpact influential in Turkish social realist tradition
hasOriginalTitle Kuyucaklı Yusuf
hasTitleCharacter Yusuf
isWrittenIn Ottoman-Turkish context
languageCode tr
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Turkish realism
literarySignificance classic of Turkish literature
mainCharacter Kaymakam Salahattin Bey
Muazzez
Yusuf
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage Turkish
portrays conflict between individual and society
economic exploitation
gender inequality
protagonistStatus orphan
publisherCountry Turkey
settingCountry Ottoman Empire
settingPeriod early 20th century
settingPlace Aydın
linked to: Aydın Province

Nazilli
settingRegion Anatolia
targetAudience adult readers
theme alienation
class inequality
corruption
fatalism
love
patriarchal society
rural life
social injustice

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Sabahattin Ali notableWork Kuyucaklı Yusuf
Kuyucaklı Yusuf adaptation Kuyucaklı Yusuf (1947 film)
linked to: Kuyucaklı Yusuf
Kuyucaklı Yusuf hasOriginalTitle Kuyucaklı Yusuf