A General Evaluation of Mustafa Necati Sepetçioğlu’s Stories

Abstract

Mustafa Necati Sepetçioğlu, who is mostly well-known by his historical novels, is also a story-writer. His first attempts in literature were in the lane of story writing. Although he mostly wrote novels after 1970, story writing took a major place in his first phases of his literary life. There are two story books that he wrote. Some of his stories were published in various journals and periodicals. In this study, his stories are examined according to their themes, story elements and narration styles. In addition to this examination, his ideas about story, narration, storywriters are presented briefly as an introduction to his story-writing.