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in: Batı Edebiyatında Kahraman, Şeyda İnceoğlu, Editor, Pamukale Üniversitesi Yayınları, Denizli, pp.167-174, 2010
Peter Ackroyd's novel The Great Fire of London is a work in which any attempt to construct, to be or to do is undermined, neutralised or fails. With such constriction, loss and void, the heroic figure, its possibilities and options, are negated. The hero/heroine cannot realise him/herself in the contexts of the book. Alongside the futility in social and collective spheres and projects, incompetence also prevails in the personal realm of the individual and in his/her ontological strata.