Abstract
THE USE OF CLASSICAL TURKISH LITERATURE AND EAST-ISLAMIC SOURCES IN THE WORK TITLED KI·TAB-ÜL HI·YEL BY I·HSAN OKTAY ANAR
The novel has been one of the main genres since its first appearance in Turkish literature and has stood in an important place in the reading of sociocultural changes. Cultural changes in Turkey, which started especially in the 1980s, gained momentum in the 1990s with the rise of the media and rural-urban migration, and influenced changes of an intellectual nature. This period also corresponds to the times when postmodern literary works have recently gained visibility in the world of literature. İhsan Oktay Anar's Kitab-ül Hiyel also bears the characteristics of these postmodern works. The identification of the source has a very important place in terms of understanding the intellectual structure of the period, which has recently turned its face to the East and the classical, and the contextual world that the classical adds to the text. Classical Turkish literature and Eastern-Islamic sources as a source for the postmodern novel and the aesthetic change it realises in this novel are worth to be determined. Ihsan Oktay Anar chooses classical Turkish literature and Eastern-Islamic sources as sources for his novels. While these sources strengthen the work aesthetically, they also enrich the inner stories contextually and analogically. The fact that İhsan Oktay Anar uses these sources leads to a different reading of the sources with postmodern techniques. The aim of this article is not only to identify the sources and interpret their contribution to the text through discourse analysis, but also to question what the text does to the way the sources are perceived
Keywords
Novel, Classical Turkish Literature, Kitab-ül Hiyel, Postmodernism, Eastern-Islamic Sources.