A Humoristic and Satirical Perspective to Jewish Classes in Goodbye, Colombus by Philip Roth

Year 2016, Volume: 5 Issue: 8, 3246 - 3258, 25.12.2016

Faruk Kalay

https://doi.org/10.15869/itobiad.263540

Abstract

Philip Roth
having Jewish ethnicity is a distinguished and famous writer in American
literature. In his first novella Goodbye,
Colombus, containing five other short stories, there are numbers of Jewish
characters from all classes. This diversity enables the author make a good
humor and flippancy in the lower and upper classes or between each other. Neil
Klugman who is both narrator and protagonist of the novella living in working
class neighborhood falls in love with Brenda Patimkin, a college student from a
wealthy family. Roth from Klugman’s point of view satirizes and humors Jews and
their relationships between themselves and Gentiles. The author manages to
lampoon his society and himself as a Jew of New Jersey. In this study, Roth’s
first novella written in 1959, Goodbye,
Colombus will be argued in terms of satirical and humoristic
characteristics. 

Keywords

Goodbye, Colombus, Humor, Neil Klugman, Philip Roth

Philip Roth’un Goodbye, Columbus Eserinde Yahudi Siniflarina Nükteli Ve Hicivli Bir Bakiş

Abstract

Yahudi bir kimliğe sahip olan Philip
Roth Amerikan edebiyatında önemli ve saygın bir yazardır. İçinde beş farklı
kısa hikaye barındıran ilk kısa romanı Goodbye,
Columbus’da tüm sınıflardan Yahudi karakterler barınmaktadır. Bu farklılık
yazara alt ve üst sınıflarda veya her iki sınıf arasında iyi nükteyi ve hicvi
mümkün kılar. İşçi sınıfı bir çevrede yaşayan kısa romanın hem anlatıcısı hem
de başkahramanı olan Neil Klugman zengin bir aileden gelen üniversite öğrencisi
Brenda PAtimkin’e aşık olur. Klugman’ın bakış açısından bakan Roth Yahudiler ve
Yahudi olmayanlar arasındaki ilişkileri hicivli ve nükteli bir şekilde anlatır.
Yazar New Jersey’li bir Yahudi olarak kendini ve yaşadığı toplumu yansıtır. Bu
çalışmada 1959 yılında yazılan Roth’un ilk kısa romanın hicivli ve nükteli
özellikleri tartışılacaktır.

Keywords

Goodbye, Colombus, Hiciv, Neil Klugman, Philip Roth

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