Özet:

Orhan Pamuk's novel Plague Nights, which is a first for Turkish Literature by placing the plague epidemic at the center of his novel, is examined in this article as an example of an epidemic novel. The structure of Western epidemic literature that has established certain rules over the centuries has gained an established and conservative feature. Determining how Orhan Pamuk tries to break this conservative structure in his novel is aimed in this article. In the article, the novel is primarily addressed through the way of telling the epidemic and epidemic disease, and compared with the works of Western and Turkish epidemic literature in this respect. Pamuk's novel is discussed under the headings of power criticism in the context of the epidemic-power relationship, epidemic documents, intertextual relations, play, frame expression technique, dystopia which are common in the genre of epidemic literature, and the innovations, differences and contributions that the novel brings to the field are identified in these areas. . As a result, the original aspects of the novel are set forth as an example of epidemic literature.

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