READING THE WORKS OF SAM？HA AYVERD？'S ？BRAH？M EFEND？ KONA？I AS A HISTORICAL FICTION

Samiha Ayverdi's book, which was published serially in 1964 in Tercüman and in the same year her book was published by ？stanbul Fetih Cemiyeti ？stanbul Enstitüsü Ne？riyat？. It is mentioned about the subject of finance minister ？brahim Efendi and his circle. The mansion, where the events took place, symbolized the Ottoman Empire and the process of the collapse of the state was identified with the mansion. The novel, which dominates biographical qualities and has a minimum of fictionality, can be considered as historical fiction because Ayverdi gives a wide space to the period before her birth. Likewise, it is suitable to be regarded as a period fiction by considering every aspect of the periods it witnessed. According to the author's statements, this book is a book of commemoration. The style of the author is a novel because of the fact that the real persons are given within the framework of a fiction and the author conveys her views in some chapters. In this book, religious days, celebrations, traditional lifestyle in the cultural memory of society are presented in a live scene. In this article, the described periods in ？brahim Efendi Kona？？ and the author 's point of view around the history has been evaluated