TOPLUMSAL GERÇEKLİK VE POSTMODERN ROMAN
SOCIAL REALITY AND POSTMODERN NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: The postmodern novel is a type of literature in which the formal experimentalism comes into prominence. This is why studies of sociology of literature, which focus with regard the content of literary works on the the relation between literature and society, have been inadequate of analyzing postmodern novel sociologically. In analyzing of postmodern texts, literary history, comperative literature and cultural studies replace studies of sociology of literature. Therefore these texts have not a special connection with society. This study aims to make understandable the formal characteristics of postmodern novel sociologically. For this purpose, it is demonstrated what kind of social reality the form represents; the relation between novel and social reality is described historically and as a result it is observed that the elements of fiction in a novel give way to different formal appearences depending on changes in social reality. The 18th-century novel adopted individual reality instead of traditional reality; 19th-century novel accepted an objective reality that provides to have the most efficacious relation between literary work and exterior reality; 20th-century novel represented individual’s inherent world as a result of fragmented perception of reality. It is said that there are various reality concepts and their various represantations. So postmodern novel is a product of new reality in the society and is a literary reflection of society. This is a new reality concept that microteories are in place macro-teories, the perception of truth is fragmentized, rational individual is ignored, singular thougts give place to plurality. This is also a reality concept that the subject is reborned as language with the difference of previous ways of thinking that God or human are in central.

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