Abstract:

Literary genres are not static patterns in which certain fixed forms, contents, and styles are dull. They differ, change and develop with almost every new text. A novel is the leading one among literary genres that transforms according to the age, society, relationships and cultural atmosphere, and continues to exist by constantly undergoing metamorphosis. In this sense, the sociology-oriented classic novel(realist novel) is first replaced by the modern novel giving insight into the inner world of the individual over time and then comes the postmodern novel, born in the multicultural environment created by globalization. Together with the change into the different genres or forms according to movements, terms, countries and cultures, especially the upper titles of the novel can be coded as basic concepts showing the retrospective development of a novel.   The radical attitudes including paradigm changes in the context of the content, style and author-text-reader relationship in the historical development process of the novel can only be concrete within the framework of classical, modern and postmodern novel notions. On the other hand, it can be very useful to compare the differences between these main concepts in the teaching of the novel as a literary genre, so this article was written to discuss all these facts. In this context, these works; Yakup Kadri's Kiralık Konak chosen as an example of a classic novel from Turkish literature, Sadık Hidayet's Kör Baykuş, as an example of a modern novel from Persian literature and Italo Calvino's  Bir Kış Gecesi Eğer Bir Yolcu as a postmodern novel were chosen . These works are comparingly examined in the context of fiction, person, place, time and  narrator. In this way, the differences between classical, modern and postmodern novels were tried to be defined through these three examples of novels from different countries and periods.

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