Özet:

Each era's view of life, humanity and the way it perceives reality is directly reflected in the artistic understanding of the time period in question. Until the late 19th century, the novel was the extension of Newtonian physics in literary aesthetics, leaning on reason and the concrete. The 19th century realist novel has a time-sequential flow that reflects the outside world exactly, but it does not contain any complexity. Thus, until the 20th century, the reader reads events in the novels that coincide with the reality of his/her own physical world and depend on cause-and-effect relationships. However, the new scientific developments that gained momentum in the 20th century began to call into question the main principles of Newtonian physics. This new understanding of reality finds its counterpart in 20th century aesthetics. This new understanding, which is called modernist literature, does not take the rational and logical as the only criterion by taking a critical attitude towards the general principles of modernism. The inner world of the individual, spiritual and moral values are emphasized. The author's free attitude gains importance against traditional patterns in aesthetic understanding. Thus, in the modernist novel, where the absolute power of reason is questioned, the classical novel understanding is abandoned and innovations are made in content and form. In our study, Aslı Erdoğan's novel Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent (1998) has been scrutinized by taking into consideration the possibilities provided to the author by the modernist novel understanding, first of all, after giving information about modernism and modernist novel understanding, modernist techniques were identified in the novel in question, and then the work was subjected to analysis under the titles of City and Slums, Alienation and Escape, Flaneur as Observing Subject.