The formation of the postmodern Turkish novel

Abstract

Modernism, which considered mankind the most valuable asset of the world and tried to cre-ate a human-centered world in the first half of the 20th century, did not last long in capitalist socie-ty. Because occidental modernism could not develop in an area where was the center of the both world wars, and in a capitalist society in which human values were destructive. Modernism, which has emerged in a narrow geographical area, has been replaced by postmodernism, which is known for critical and enlightening aspects. In the Turkish literature this process has shown itself quite differently. Thus, modernism emerged in Turkish literature in the second half of the twentieth cen-tury and developed in parallel with postmodernism. That is why some of the contemporary authors have modernist and postmodernist works at the same time. The article deals with the postmodern features of the Turkish novel, based on the novels of the main representatives of modern period.