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Aykut Ertuğrul’s Storytelling in The Footsteps of Fantastic and Magical Realist Literature
Abstract
Aykut Ertuğrul, one of the most noteworthy storytellers of modern Turkish literature, has developed a distinctive narrative style through the incorporation of fantastic and magical realism in his works. Ertuğrul fuses the peculiar and thought-provoking elements of fantastic literature with the contemplative ambience of magical realism, providing readers with a sense of estrangement from the familiar and prompting them to reconsider established themes through unconventional narrative techniques. The extraordinary and supernatural elements that infiltrate the known world in his stories are typically derived from local traditional narratives including fairy tales, myths, folk tales, and Qur’anic parables. In Ertuğrul's narratives, heroes and motifs from these narratives and folk culture are blended with modernist and postmodernist narrative techniques. Ertuğrul's texts are characterised by an expansive interpretation of meaning, achieved through the utilisation of fantastical and magical realist modes. Such works offer readers an engaging and thought-provoking reading experience, frequently incorporating philosophical and metaphysical themes. These include the modern individual's sense of stagnation, the futility of not being a hero, cyclical time and the inevitability of fate, as well as current political and social issues.
In this article, the concepts of fantasy, the fantastic and magical realism, which are sometimes conflated in literary studies, are examined in detail. Aykut Ertuğrul's stories in which the fantastical and magical realist mode is used are analysed in terms of the reflections of the extraordinary on people, objects, time and space, and the use of dystopia, fortune telling and magic elements, and thus the nature of the author's fantastic universe is revealed.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Türkiye Sahası Yeni Türk Edebiyatı
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Muhammet Can
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0000-0002-9800-1110
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
21 Ekim 2024
Gönderilme Tarihi
5 Ağustos 2024
Kabul Tarihi
24 Ağustos 2024
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 1970 Sayı: 30