Abstract
READING KATAKOFTI AS EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE
Art and literature have pursued the different phenomenon throughout history. Artists have used extraordinary practices to capture diversity in their works. Within this respect, it can be said that all artistic productions have experimental characteristics. However, true experimentation begins with modern art. Modernist/postmodernist literary figures, who search for new ideas against all kinds of traditional discourse, have led to the emergence of an autonomous experimental literature concept. When experimental literature is mentioned, Oulipo writers (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle = Potential Literature Workshop) come to mind, including writers such as Perec, Calvino and Queno. These can be considered as revolutionary and breaking literary figures with their opposition to the existing literary canon. These types of productions, which were first carried out in Western literature, later began to be seen in Turkish literature. In this study, the literary production of Gökdemir İhsan, who produced his works with this understanding, titled "Katakofti: Eight Enigma Stories", was examined. Experimental studies are carried out to examine the effects of variables that create a process, situation and interaction. Gökdemir İhsan constructs his stories by experimenting on the variables that create them. The work has been examined in terms of visuality, inter genre, metafiction, intertextuality, multiple expression levels and different applications in language use. It has been determined how small changes made in stories that tell the same subject differentiate the narrative. Katakofti is not a work created with inspiration or improvisation. It is a work that provides the opportunity for multiple readings based on reading culture, critical thinking styles and mathematical possibilities, but does not become mechanical.
Keywords
Experimental Literature, Metafiction, Interdisciplinarity, Gökdemir İhsan, Katakofti