New Literature and Generations

When life of societies is taken into consideration, it is seen that generations rather than individuals are effective in shaping social order and goals. Generations generally come into existence as creator of a school, a trend. As in the schools, a thesis-antithesis situation sharply separates them from others. In this respect, the harmony of language understanding ensures the continuity of a previously developed understanding. What is said for the generation is also valid for to literary circles in a special sense. The literary generation, on the other hand, is the name given to a special field by generations that are formed around literary precious issues. In shaping the literary generation, the period, schools, post-Tanzimat western examples play a role. The most striking point in our literature of the last hundred and fifty years, which was subjected to many names such as "The Age of Westernization", "The Age of Searches", "Modern Literature", is that it includes a lot of schools, names, movements and therefore generations. First generation of Tanzimat is that it was led by the team which was composed of Şinasi, Namık Kemal, and Ziya Pasha. The Tanzimat generation pioneered the intellectual currents of the era and was the first in all moves. The second generation of Tanzimat is the generation also called "Hamit-Ekrem-Sezai" School, represented by Abdülhak Hamit, Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem and Samipaşazade Sezai. This generation is above all indifferent to social and political issues. In their perspective, art is a field that aims at aesthetic competence that deals with individual suffering, not social benefit. The third generation of the intermediate generation of modern literature consists of names such as Nabizâde Nazım, Mehmet Celal, Mehmet Ziver and Fazlı Necip who could not have a very bright place in the history of literature. This generation is a group of 25-30 people who succeeded in bringing a change to the face of literature in the field of perception and style. The most remarkable aspect of the era is that it brought magazine publishing rather than journalism to a very good stage. Servet-i Fünûn generation, which is the 4th generation of modern literature, is a very influential group that has made a name for itself in the last hundred and fifty years. Like the artists of this period, its works were also sickly and pale