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At the end of their stories, the characters, who reflect different geographies, manage to get out of their state of alienation from the society and their inner self’s thanks to the strategies they develop. It is at this point that the characters of Atay, Turgut Özben and Selim Işık, who are sentenced to mental exile, literally coincide with the Invisible Man who is sentenced to a bodily exile. While, Atay sheds light upon the alienated individual via using disconnection as a motif, Ellison addresses the alienated individual in American society through invisibility. In both works, in order to encounter and overcome their alienation, the main characters create a common space through the methods they develop. In relation, Oğuz Atay’s The Disconnected (1972) and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) address the concept of alienation through the portrayal of the spiritual journey of the universal lonely individual from the perspectives of Turkish and American cultures.

As literature is inherently the reflection of social life, the concept of alienation has become an intersection point of literary works. Throughout history, the concRegardless of time, place and social differences, the concept of alienation, as a part of social life, has been regarded as a universal theme. Invisibility and Disconnectedness in the Twentieth Century Novel: The Comparative Analysis of the Concept of Alienation in Oğuz Atay’s The Disconnected and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man