COMPARATION of “KUKLA” and “CONTINUIDAD DE LOS PARQUES” as POSTMODERN NARRATIVES
KUKLA” ve “BÜTÜN PARKLAR UÇ UCA” ÖYKÜLERİNİN POSTMODERN ANLATI BAĞLAMINDA KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI

Author : Nuray KÜÇÜKLER KUŞCU
Number of pages : 144-151

Abstract

Postmodernism refers the period after modernism and criticize the underpinnings of modernism. The defination and the extent of postmodernism is highly contentious. Postmodernism in literature has an alterative and transforming side. In this paper the texts of Murat Gülsoy (“Kukla”) and Julio Cortázar (in Turkish “Bütün Parklar Uç Uca”) studied comperatively as the examples of postmodern narration. The subject of Gülsoy’s short story is writing. In that context metafiction is used. The subject of the Cortázar’s short story is the reading. As a result of that paper it can be said that the two shories have the properties of postmodernist literature. In these stories the role of writer-reader in writer-reader-text relation questioned, circular narrative style presented, fiction is organized as a game, and the effective participation of reader in that game provided.

Keywords

Postmodernism, Murat Gülsoy, Julio Cortázar

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