TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meltem Gürle
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 0721-3425
SN  - 9783653026665
TI  - Carnivalizing the Turkish novel
T2  - Oğuz Atay’s dialogue with the canon in "The Disconnected</I>
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-02666-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046962
N2  - Oğuz Atay’s 1971 novel The Disconnected [Tutunamayanlar] is distinctly unique, but it can also be read as a response to Joyce’s Ulysses – a singular and a very Turkish response. Any review of The Disconnected begins with the humble acknowledgement of its vast frame of reference, the multiplicity of the voices and styles that it presents, and finally its resistance to being translated into another language. What makes it interesting for the readers of modern literature, however, is not only the variety of idiosyncrasies and verbal conventions, but also its critical attitude towards Turkey’s project of modernity. Drawing on Bakhtin’s theory of the novel, this study traces the echoes of carnival laughter in The Disconnected while establishing Atay’s work as a «world text» in dialogue with the masters of the canon: Shakespeare, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Joyce, and others.
KW  - Modernity, Self-consciousness, National Allegory, Individuality, socialization
LA  - English
ER  -