Abstract:

In this article, by reminding the adventure of the novel genre from its beginning to the present, Cihan Aktaş's novel, The Poet and The Night Bird, which is one of the last links of this change story, is examined in terms of fiction, narrator and narrative techniques of the art of the novel. Before the analysis of The Poet and The Night Bird, the biography of the author, her preferences and qualifications of authorship, and the traces of these characteristics reflected in the work were mentioned. The aim of the novel is to narrate the biographies of two educated and artist women who lived in Anatolia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; however, in the novel, it has been seen that the aim and the aesthetic integrity of the novel art are preserved, and the social/ political problems and changes experienced throughout the country during this time are also discussed; the technical dimensions of the process of transforming the lives of Miss Nimet and Cevriye Bânû into a novel in a fictional integrity by making use of the biographies and memoirs throughout the two main parts of the work have been tried to be understood. It has been determined that both traditional and modern fiction, narrator and narrative techniques are used in the novel, which is fictionalized on the basis of a traditional case story. In addition, there are noteworthy narrative elements in the work: One of them is to include a multiple narrator in a historical biographical fiction. Another is the intervening narrator, who is considered a flaw in the first period Turkish novel examples, but also finds a place for himself in modernist and postmodernist novels. In the work, narration and understanding are also handled as a problem. Another remarkable element of expression is that the author meticulously included the local vocabulary of the regions where the two protagonists whose biographies were living in, into her work.

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