He thought: “A short-lived creature lives in our age, unknown to previous centuries. A person who came out of the cinema. The movie he saw did something to him. He is not a person who only cares about his own interests. He is at peace with people. It is hoped that he will do great things. But he dies in five to ten minutes. Yusuf Atılgan's Aylak Adam has been one of the most loved and discussed novels of our literature since the day it was published. The novel was about the urban idle intellectual individual, which started to be talked about both in our country and around the world in the early 60s. Today, the intellectual problems highlighted by Aylak Adam, which is now among our contemporary classics, remain current.