POSTMODERN BİR ANLATI: RUHİ MÜCERRET

It is possible to come across, in the recent period, a more conscious use of the postmodernist features that emerged in Turkish literature towards the end of the 1980s. Murat Menteş is one of the authors applying postmodern narrative forms in his works in a successful manner. Ruhi Mücerret, which was published in 2013, is the last book of the author, who published Dublörün Dilemması in 2005 and Korkma Ben Varım in 2009. The book tells chip implantation in the head of the veteran of War of Independence, over one hundred years old, Ruhi Mücerret, and what happens afterwards. In this book, the author applies postmodern narrative elements such as a plot structure, a far cry from the classical novel structure, plurality, intertextuality and metafiction. The aim of this article, in this light, is to determine how these narrative elements are used in the novel and to express creation of the plot structure of the novel. As a result of reading done in line with this aim, it is seen that a lot of elements, which are not possible to be side by side on the real plane, are intertwined as three dimensional; elements from different ideologies and lifestyles are juxtaposed; ways of expressions belonging to underground literature as well as fantastic, romantic and historical features are presented, and different methods such as intertextuality, quotation, reference, repercussion, pastiche, and mocking are applied in the novel. The author also makes use of metafiction technique by including the reader in the writing process and by referring to his writing process and the fact that he creates imaginary characters in an imaginary world. This article argues that the novel, Ruhi Mücerret can be regarded as a postmodern narrative due to its technique, differences in narrative forms and impressive and unique style