Abstract:

History of art bases on contradictory art movements’ following each other.  In front of modernism with all depression it had and caused was postmodernism in the 20th century. Postmodernism has showed its objections to modernism in all fields. In the present study, there is a move from the inclination of postmodernism on novel. The novel named Lang Kaymasi by Rifat Kırkoğlu whose main contribution to Turkish literature is through translations has been analyzed in the study in terms of postmodernism properties. Descriptive analysis method has been used in the study. The conceptual framework and theme that determined the boundaries of the process of analysis forms the technical and contextual properties of postmodernist novel theory. The novel has been analyzed in technical (intertextuality, metafiction) and contextual (orientation towards history, fantastic, multiplism, detective, tension) properties.  As a result of the study, it has been determined that Linguistic is a successful novel that reveals the properties of postmodern thought and novel originally.

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