MODERNİST ROMAN OLARAK AS I LAY DYING & SESSİZ EV
AS I LAY DYING AND SESSİZ EV AS MODERNIST NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: In this study, William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930), from Anglo-American literature, is compared and contrasted with Orhan Pamuk’s Sessiz Ev (1983), from Turkish literature, in the context of Western style modernist novel aspects, particularly stream of consciousness technique. The reason these novels are chosen as a subject matter of this study is that both novels have a very similar writing method and form. In both novels, the story is narrated through the different characters’ world of thought in different chapters through stream of consciousness technique. Yet, both novels were written in different times and periods. When As I Lay Dying was first published, the Western literature world had been living the high modernism period which paid attention foremost to the innovative writing techniques and the inner world of characters. Nevertheless, in Turkey, the novels in the sense of Western modernist style were seen much later, in about 1970’s and 1980’s. Therefore, when considering the publishing dates, it is very striking that Pamuk’s Sessiz Ev is very similar to Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying in the sense of modernist methods and techniques. The main reason for this consequence is – as it has been discussed briefly in the paper – The Turkish Literature and History of Art followed the modernism and postmodernism periods after Anglo-American world. Therefore, as a result of the identified common modernist techniques in the paper as well as his writing career and lifespan, it will not be wrong to state that Orhan Pamuk has been influenced by William Faulkner’s writing style and in Sessiz Ev he used modernist writing techniques similar to Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.

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