CONTENT-NARRATIVE RELATION IN NOVEL “THE LAND OF GREEN PLUM” BY HERTA MÜLLER
HERTA MÜLLER’İN “YÜREKTEKİ HAYVAN” ADLI ROMANINDA İÇERİK-ANLATI İLİŞKİSİ

Author : Zennube ŞAHİN YILMAZ
Number of pages : 230-244

Abstract

Herta Müller's novel "The Land of the Green Plum", which illuminates the time of Ceausescu, focuses on the dictatorial pressure experienced by a group of friends in daily life. However, the novel opens the doors of an extraordinary fiction world not only with its content, but with Müller's narrative form. The way the author equips the figures is both remarkable and it is a very conscious approach in terms of clarifying the general fiction of the novel. Müller focuses on not forgetting the past and the reconciliation with the past, when planning her works in the fictional sense. This focal point of her can be considered as a very natural result in the context of reality-fiction relation. Müller focuses on the narrator, with whom she embodies Romania's historic panaromas and she gives the possibility with the form of the pathetic expression to concretize the experiences in the eyes of the reader. The narrator's existence and narrative style feels the totalitarian regime/pressure in the novel and thus, the content of the novel is at least adopted as the basis for the novel. In this direction, the content of the novel becomes clear with its narrative features.

Keywords

Ceausescu- Romania, Dictatorship, Narrator-Narrative Features

Read: 1,060

Download: 304