Postmodernism Gone Wild: Alev Alatlı's Schrödinger's Cat

Year 2006, Volume: 1 Issue: 6, 231 - 237, 01.06.2006

Serpil Oppermann

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Postmodernism Gone Wild: Alev Alatl›’s Schrödinger’s Cat1

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Alev Alatl› is one of the most erudite of all the contemporary Turkish writers.3 Her novels are pervaded with a profound sense of philosophical inquiry and critical insight concerning the world we live in. She draws upon an ecclectic mix of Western modes of knowledge, Eastern philosophies, ancient and modern Turkish customs, folklore, and myths, and also displays a unique talent of fusing the intricate theories of Quantum physics with the socio-political ideologies of our time. She presents in her fiction a sense of living in a world whose foundations have been shaken, and where national and personal identity appears in wholly decentered forms. Her characters, trying to make sense of their anti-utopic world, and its violent forms of oppression, experience a process of disenchantment from traditional structures of belief. Had her work been translated she would, no doubt, have been acclaimed as one of the foremost thinkers of our time. 

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Postmodernism, Gone, Wild