Abstract
Sabahattin Kudret Aksal is a successful story writer as well as a poet and dramatist. His stories “Vav’lar” (Vavs) and “Soyut Oda” (Abstract Room) are similar in terms of theme and method. The tendency of Mutasarrıf Abdülmuttalip Bey, who is the main character of “the Vavs” story, to destroy himself parallels the collapse of Abdülhâmit the Second, revealing a lively relationship between the individual and the society. Abdülmuttalip Bey, who was dismissed from his office for a reason unexplained throughout the story, hides this reason from the reader until the end of the story and clings to the vavs. The story continues a mystical tradition. Vav is a symbol of returning to the mother’s womb and childhood in Islamic art. When the subject realizes that he cannot hold on to life, he prefers to return to the mother’s womb in order to be reborn in a stronger form by performing a twist. This return is vavization. Using all his talents in this direction, he makes continuous drawings to find his own unique vav. This is a reflection of the subject’s tendency to renew himself and return to his earthly sources. The drawing function, which has initially been used to find the most original vav, causes the Governor Abdulmuttalip Bey to become twisted in parallel to his shrinking into himself. While the tendency of the subject to destroy himself through separation is first described as giving up on the objects and then on himself, the subject’s course of action and the tendency to abstraction have been successfully reflected in the story with the sparseness of the vav.