The question of whether the person himself or herself chooses the objects he desires in a world where the individual is in the center is the essence of his theory based on the novel characters of the French theorist Rene Girard. Girard focuses on the non-spontaneous nature of desire in his book Deceit, Desire and The Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure published in 1961. The aim of this article is to analyze Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu's novel Kiralık Konak in the context of Girard's work and in the light of "triangle desire" theory. In this respect, it was argued that the mimetic structure between their desires, wishes and aims was tried to be solved by focusing on the "mediator" concept which directs the behaviors of the characters in the novel in the study and that the Kiralık Konak is a work that falls into the category of "novelistic truth" with this characteristic of triangle desire.

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, “Kiralık Konak”, Rene Girard, “Deceit, Desire and The Novel”, Triangle Desire, Mimetic Desire, Novel.