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This study takes a critical view of the relationship between truth and narrative with reference to Oğuz Atay’s prose work entitled “Tehlikeli Oyunlar” (Dangerous Games). The paper draws attention on the idea that we cannot separate the reality of life precisely from the fictionality of a text. Thus, the critique of the separation of reality and fiction lies at the basis of the text. Johan Huizinga’s concept of homo ludens which means the human being who plays games implies a critical marker at this point. Homo ludens is a human being who creates reality by playing games. Creation of reality refers to its (reality’s) non-essential character. For this reason, reality can be described as inseparable from fiction. One of the major aims of this work is to critically interpret dual oppositions like reality-game, reality-narrative, game-seriousness, logos-chaos through Hikmet Benol who is the main character of Oğuz Atay’s “Tehlikeli Oyunlar”. It is known, such binary oppositions –in Martin Heidegger’s and Jacques Derrida’s terms- are elements of metaphysics of presence. The notion of metaphysics of presence is a kind of interpretation of the tradition of Western thought that dates back to Plato. This interpretation brings the idea of critique of the metaphysical tradition of Western thought. In this work, the focus is on the logos (mind), madness and game context of this criticism. Oğuz Atay’s novels and stories often contain abnormal and isolated characters who are alienated from the society. Although, “Tutunamayanlar” (The Disconnected) is the work that first comes to mind when Oğuz Atay is mentioned, the most disconnected, the maddest, the most anomalous character is Hikmet Benol of “Tehlikeli Oyunlar”. In this context, Atay uses game and madness through failure to comply with certain norms, contradictions to the logos order, or the sense of being disconnected from the signs of the 'normal' in daily life. By introducing the problem of existence and (dis)individuation as the basic problems experienced by Hikmet Benol, this paper aims to discuss the central role of irony and mockery, existence, death/suicide. In this paper, thus, the importance of the fictionality of the game and the ab/normality of madness is discussed by taking a critical philosophy of life into consideration.

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