Büyücü ve Puslu Kıtalar Atlası Romanlarında Algıkırıcılık Ögesinin Karşılaştırılması

The Turkish novelist İhsan Oktay Anar and the English novelist John Fowles, both of whom produced postmodern novels, employ the defamiliarisation technique in their novel structures so as to destroy rooted ways of thinking about concepts, themes, ideas, ideologies, history, setting and beliefs. The main aim in the use of defamiliarisation, which is one of the most important techniques of postmodern novel, is to make the numbed human mind re-think about many concepts by facilitating the reader to reconsider old ideas rooted and taken for granted. Both authors depict time and space in order to create a concept of reality, which offers a picture like that presented in modernist novels. However, Anar adds many sub-plots to the main plot and makes the main plot extend to numerous dimensions. Fowles, on the other hand, atrracts the reader’s attention to different points by fluctuating between different times. Whereas Anar makes use of doubtful narrative sources such as storytelling and third person reports in order to shatter the perception of reality presented in narratives, Fowles directly interferes with the narrative through metafiction, presents the plot via experimental fictive tecniques and attempts to prove that the stories are only constructed in the mind of the author and so they can in no way reflect any dimension of the real world. While Anar mixes modern Turkish with Ottoman Turkish along with the use of collage, parody and irony, Fowles exploits irony and parody to a larger extent. The technique known as intertextuality is a feature of both writers, who present old texts in new contexts. Defamiliarisation is the most important common point employed by both authors in the Magus and Puslu Kıtalar Atlası. In this article, how two novelists, having produced technically and thematically various novels in different periods, languages and cultures, make use of defamiliarisation technique and what concepts they undermine by forcing the reader to reconsider are analyzed in a comparative way.