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Based on Şahap Sıtkı’s novels Gün Görmeyen Sokak and Cevdet Kudret’s Havada Bulut Yok, this article aims to examine the authors’ attitudes towards reality and their views on social reality comparatively. In these novels, both of which were published in 1958, in accordance with the understanding of art and literature of the period, the village, the peasant and the civil servant are looked at through the eyes of two ‘teachers’ named Nurseren and Süleyman respectively. The prevailing mentality in both of the novels is the importance of education and development, and the fact that the situation of middle and lower strata people is quite difficult and painful. However, although Şahap Sıtkı sees social reality with artistic sensitivity, he does not deal with the fictional world of the work or the people of this world on a social and economic basis; it does not offer a ‘solution’ or a ‘prescription’ to the social problems it touches on in his work. On the other hand, Cevdet Kudret adopts an interventionist attitude although it ends in failure in the face of social realism; The novel person struggles with the reality he finds wrong through Süleyman. In this context, it can be said that Gün Görmeyen Sokak is a realist novel while Havada Bulut Yok is a social realist one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]