POSTMODERNİST ANLATININ BİLİM-KURGU İLE ANAKRONİK BULUŞMASI: KONSTANTİNİYYE ÜÇLEMESİ
THE ANACHRONISTIC RENDEZVOUS BETWEEN POSTMODERNISM AND SCIENCE FICTION: TRILOGY OF KONSTANTINIYYE

Summary/Abstract: The trilogy of Konstantiniyye, written by the twenty-first-century Turkish writer Ali Teoman and composed of three books named Infantile Deaths in Sleep, Blackhole Dairy and The Horses of the Night, has been completed in 2011. As they appear to be related more in a complementary way than by a state of continuity, the three novels demonstrate characteristics and particularities which can be considered in the context of postmodernist narrative and science fiction subgenre. In this paper, the three novels that have been mentioned above will be examined, through concrete evidence, regarding their stylistic and expressive elements that might be associated with postmodernist narrative. Furthermore, this paper, by taking into consideration the notion of time as it is represented in the work of Teoman, will show in what manner the latter possesses the traits of the subgenre of science fiction, by underscoring, at this stage, the anachronistic character of that temporal aspect.

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