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"Fikrimin İnce Gülü" by Adalet Ağaoğlu published in 1976 narrates both the inner and physical journey of a man called Bayram who was a worker in Germany and who goes back to his hometown for vacation. The novel described changes in Turkish society in the 1950's through Bayram's childhood and the social, political and economic conditions in the 1970's. The most important reason Bayram becomes such a person is the postfordist period he lived in. Money, commodity, and information spread unlimitedly, product and production changed constantly, the quality of labor and the labor force remained unstable and everyone was expected to be enterprising during this period. Bayram, on the other hand, had missed the fact that consumption was changing rapidly, that objects of desire were constantly renewed, and hooked all of his existence onto a 1974 Mercedes. Bayram as a member of a consumer society that attributed his existence to a car, and believed that with this car he would be able to gain a prestigious personality and for the sake of this he became alienated to his body and environment. He became insensitive, damaged in terms of his psychology and he lost his humanity. In order to be rid of his past victimization and get the privilege that he supposed he will have he accepted exploitation willingly, internalized the principles of his oppressor and committed humanity crime in terms of ethics. However, the purpose of the author was not to declare Bayram guilty; she made readers think about the material conditions which constructed humans. When these conditions are carefully considered, it was understood that Bayram was just one of the thousands of people created by capitalist relations and although he seemed guilty, the reader realized that he was a victim. To have one consider the conditions which made Bayram both guilty and a victim indicated that Ağaoğlu's aim was to interrogate this life, determine what makes such a life in Turkey and discuss the responsibility of people in this interrogationthrough literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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