Abstract:

Peyami Safa, who criticizes and studies the development of literary species in Turkish and Western literature, has a clear understanding of the differences and innovations in the novel. The writer, who has theoretical examples of the genre of the novel, tries various techniques in order to the "perfect". The transformations of the novel in the national and international context, the study of the stages of Safa's work, A Remember Roman, points out that the techniques and characters that shape the fiction in the postmodern novel's position use the characteristics of the postmodern novel. It can be said that in a period in which modern and postmodern concepts are part of each other, the novel is a transitional period product that reflects the critical stage in the modern and postmodern transition. Techniques such as the use of the top narrative in the novel, the method of intertext and the multiple point of view, the incorporation of the writer-read-text relationship into the novel writing process, the writer's conversation with it by incorporating the reader text and the direction of the fiction of the main text by involving the writing process of another novel in the novel are the characteristics of postmodern novel. This study aims to solve and interpret the similarities of the structure and content elements of the work called A Remember Roman with the characteristics of the postmodern novel.

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Peyami Safa, who carried out critiques and studies on the development of literary genres in Turkish and Western literature, had an approach that was open to differences and innovations in terms of technique in novels. The writer, who had theoretician-like comments on the novel genre, tried various techniques for the purpose of reaching “perfection”. It is seen that Peyami Safa examined the transformation and stages of the novel in the national and international contexts and used qualities unique to the postmodern novel at the point of techniques that shaped the construct and the positions of the characters in his work titled Bir Tereddüdün Romanı [the Novel of a Hesitation]. It may be argued that this novel that was written in a period where the modern and postmodern approaches were intertwined is a transition-period product that reflects a critical stage from the transition to the modern to the postmodern. In the novel, techniques like the use of metafiction, the method of intertextuality and a pluralistic point of view, the inclusion of the writer-reader-text relationship in the writing process, the writer’s inclusion of the reader into the text and his conversation with the reader and the fact that the writing process of another novel is included in the novel and directs the plot of the novel are characteristics of the postmodern novel. In this study, it is aimed to analyze and interpret the similarities of the structural and content-related elements of the work titled Bir Tereddüdün Romanı to the properties of the postmodern novel.