Desire is a phenomenon that is studied and thought about in a wide area ranging from philosophy to psychology, from material culture studies to art studies. Desire, which is also examined in the field of literature, becomes an element of the narrative with its driving force function that activates the subject in narrative types based on the subject-object relationship. This power, which is at the center of the narrative tradition extending from oral culture to the modern novel, is a sender that takes the hero on a quest and adventure. Rene Girard also focused on this desire in the context of the novel genre in his study called Romantic Lie and Novelistic Truth and evaluated the desiring tendencies in the novels. In this work, Girard develops the triangle desire model by referring to the existence of a desire in almost every novel. With this model, it focuses on the sub-ground of the relationship of the fictional characters with the object to which they are directed, and the existence of third parties who direct the character to that object. In Metin Kaçan’s Ağır Roman, the element of desire is an important driving force and is at the center of the novel. In this study, the desire was evaluated within the framework of the desire for strong masculinity, and a reading and analysis was made based on the main character of the novel.
Rene Girard, triangle desire, Metin Kaçan, Ağır Roman, masculinity