Abstract
POSTMODERN NARRATIVE OF THE TURKISH INTELLECTUAL: TERS ADAM
Social issues and events are among the indispensable subjects of works of art. The intellectuals are the main guiding figures of these issues and events. They are the people who have been struggling throughout their intellectual lives. Their struggle is not only with institutional and social norms and systems, but also with themselves. These characteristics of an intellectual put him/her in great loneliness. The loneliness of the intellectual is among the subjects that Turkish literature focuses on the most. Ters Adam “an adverse man”, written by Barlas Özarıkça, is one of these novels. The intellectual figures in Ters Adam are different from the combative and enterprising individuals of social realist novels. As an intellectual figure, the Adverse Men are unsuccessful people who are alienated from their environment and the society they live in. Rather than a social struggle, they engage in a struggle to find their identity. The narrative of the subject who has lost the perception of fiction and reality is best expressed in postmodern texts. Barlas Özarıkça also brings a critical perspective to the world of Turkish modernization and intellectuals by constructing his novel with postmodern techniques.
Keywords
Postmodernism, metafiction, intertextuality, irony, alienation, Barlas Özarıkça, Ters Adam