Suat Dervis. Una figura di soglia

Suat Derviş (1905-72), who began collaborating with a newspaper at the age of sixteen and published the first gothic story in Turkish literature, is a represent-ative figure of the changes that occurred during the transition from empire to nation. After having written psychological stories with strong gothic colors for a decade, at a time when most writers adhered to the aesthetic vision of nation-alist realism, she developed a growing sensitivity towards social and economic disparities from the 1930s, and her narrative became realist. Her human, intel-lectual, and creative story allows us to grasp the conditioning exercised by power on the lives of women and to bring out a broader picture of the relationship maintained by the republican power with the first Turkish-Ottoman feminists.