مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - THE BOOK NAMED THE GARDEN OF THE DEPARTED CATS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE POSTMODERN LANGUAGE

Abstract :

Language is one of the most important phenomena of postmodernism. Postmodern authors regard life and subjects as products of language. They do not believe that there is even such a thing as body before the language. We have tried to elaborate on what the postmodernist major theorists have to say. The language is not a fixed, absolute, constant thing. It has a flexible and slippery ground. When life and subjects are drawn onto this kind of slippery ground, they become a structure that is swung to the right and left. Therefore, postmodern thinkers say that postmodern people have an exciting but dangerous life. In the postmodern period, there are no meanings/constructions which are confined to certain boundaries and which are limited. While creating texts, authors strive to establish structures in which each reader can be drawn in different directions, rather than a single direction. Due to the structure of postmodern language, the works of this period have an anarchic structure. Texts do not respond to customary reading patterns. Bilge Karasu uses the concept of postmodern language in the stories of the book The Garden of the Departed Cats. We tried to reveal the characteristics of the postmodern language in Bilge Karasu s work.