Second new one

The Second New ( Turkish İkinci Yeni ) was one of the most important literary currents in modern Turkish poetry. This current began in 1956 as a counter-movement to the Garip , which was referred to as the “First New”, and to socialist realism in the 1940s. The most famous representatives of the current were among others Sezai Karakoç , Edip Cansever , Cemal Süreya , Turgut Uyar , Ece Ayhan and İlhan Berk .

Unlike Garip and the representatives of socialist realism, the poets of the Second Newcomers did not address social problems and refused to use simple language. Rather, they preferred apolitical issues such as the subconscious of the individual, loneliness, sexuality, death and suicide.

Stylistically, they changed the use of language under the influence of Dadaism . They preferred an abstract language and changed the structure of the language and the sentence structure.

literature

• Asım Bezirci: İkinci Yeni Olayı . 2005, Istanbul: Evrensel. ISBN 9789757837664
• Muzaffer İlhan Erdost : İkinci Yeni Yazıları . 1997, Ankara: Onur. ISBN 9753510144
• Memet Fuat: İkinci Yeni Tartışması . 2000, Istanbul: Adam. ISBN 9789754186161
• Attila İlhan : İkinci Yeni Savaşı . 2004, Istanbul: İş Bankası. ISBN 9789754585551
• Alaaddin Karaca: İkinci Yeni Poetikası . 2005, Istanbul: Hece. ISBN 9799758274894