Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s “Possible” Dystopia: Şehrin Kuleleri (Towers of the City)
Title and abstract are a translation · original language: Turkish
Hacettepe University Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Volume 36, Issue 2 (2018) pp. 336–351
- 2018
- Turkish
- doi.org/10.32600/huefd.498864
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Abstract
Dystopia, a sub-genre of Speculative Fiction, is rarely seen in Turkish literature. Generally, dystopias are fictions basedon fears, phobias concerning the future. Essentially, these works bring to the fore the warning that “it will becomeworse if things continue to be this way.” Nevertheless, the “possible” dystopia mentioned here is different from sciencefiction and fantasy, and it is used to describe a Kafkaesque bureaucratic dystopia. The term “possible” refers to adystopic theme that the communities experienced before. This dystopic set up is emphasized by the motto “it happenedthis way before; it will happen again, if things continue to be so.”The most notable aspect that differentiates ŞehrinKuleleri (Towers of the City) from dystopian genre is the parodic use of the dystopian theme. The layers of the writer,the narrator and the reader construct a complicated structure within the text, and it is fictionalized through a story thatis free from an exact pattern. The process of the construction of the plot becoming a part of the fiction; thetransformation of the text into a ground of commucation between the reader and the writer/the narrator; the playfulnature of the whole text makes this work distinctive. The aim of this study is to examine Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s novelŞehrin Kuleleri (Towers of the City) both within the context of the dystopian genre and within the line of the conceptsof "ludism" and "traditional narrator," "metafiction."
Abstract (Turkish)
Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’nun “Olası” Distopyası: Şehrin Kuleleri
Spekülatif kurgunun alt türlerinden olan distopya Türk edebiyatında fazla örneği olmayan bir türdür. Distopyalargenellikle geleceğe dair ürküler, korkular üzerine kurgulanır. Bu tür eserlerde esasında; “böyle giderse daha kötüolacak”, uyarısı öne öne çıkar. Ancak burada sözü geçen “olası” distopya ise bilimkurgu ve fantastik temellerden ayrı,daha çok Kafkavarî bir bürokratik distopyayı tanımlamak için kullanılmıştır. “Olası”dan kasıt, distopya izleğine sahipolan ancak daha önce toplumların deneyimlediği tasarımlardır. Bu distopik kurgu, “daha önce de böyle olmuştu; böylegiderse yine böyle olacak” yaklaşımı üzerinden aktarılır. Şehrin Kuleleri’ni distopya türünden ayıran en önemli özelliğiise temanın parodi haline getirilmesidir. Yazar, anlatıcı, okur katmanları; metnin içinde karmaşık bir yapı oluşturur vekesin çizgilerden arınmış bir hikâye üzerine kurgulanır. Hikâyenin oluşturulma sürecinin kurgunun bir parçası olması,okuyucu ile yazar/anlatıcı arasında metnin iletişim zemini haline gelmesi; metnin bütün özellikleriyle oyunsal birbiçimde oluşu, bu eseri farklı kılmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, hem distopya türü üzerinden Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’nunŞehrin Kuleleri adlı romanını incelemek hem de romanı “oyun” ve “geleneksel anlatıcı”, “üstkurmaca” kavramlarıçizgisinde değerlendirmektir.
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Düşgün, U. (2018). Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s “Possible” Dystopia: Şehrin Kuleleri (Towers of the City). Hacettepe University Journal of the Faculty of Letters, 36(2), 336–351. https://doi.org/10.32600/huefd.498864
BibTeX
@article{dusgun2018tayfun,
author = {D{\"u}{\c{s}}g{\"u}n, Umut},
title = {{Tayfun Pirselimo{\u{g}}lu's ``Possible'' Dystopia: {\c{S}}ehrin Kuleleri (Towers of the City)}},
journal = {Hacettepe University Journal of the Faculty of Letters},
volume = {36},
number = {2},
pages = {336--351},
publisher = {Hacettepe {\"U}niversitesi},
year = {2018},
month = {12},
issn = {1301-5737},
doi = {10.32600/huefd.498864},
url = {https://hacettepe.hbtech.com.tr/en/publication/tayfun-pirselimoglunun-olasi-distopyasi-sehrin-kuleleri},
language = {tr},
keywords = {Creative Arts and Writing},
abstract = {Dystopia, a sub-genre of Speculative Fiction, is rarely seen in Turkish literature. Generally, dystopias are fictions basedon fears, phobias concerning the future. Essentially, these works bring to the fore the warning that ``it will becomeworse if things continue to be this way.'' Nevertheless, the ``possible'' dystopia mentioned here is different from sciencefiction and fantasy, and it is used to describe a Kafkaesque bureaucratic dystopia. The term ``possible'' refers to adystopic theme that the communities experienced before. This dystopic set up is emphasized by the motto ``it happenedthis way before; it will happen again, if things continue to be so.''The most notable aspect that differentiates {\c{S}}ehrinKuleleri (Towers of the City) from dystopian genre is the parodic use of the dystopian theme. The layers of the writer,the narrator and the reader construct a complicated structure within the text, and it is fictionalized through a story thatis free from an exact pattern. The process of the construction of the plot becoming a part of the fiction; thetransformation of the text into a ground of commucation between the reader and the writer/the narrator; the playfulnature of the whole text makes this work distinctive. The aim of this study is to examine Tayfun Pirselimo{\u{g}}lu's novel{\c{S}}ehrin Kuleleri (Towers of the City) both within the context of the dystopian genre and within the line of the conceptsof "ludism" and "traditional narrator," "metafiction."},
affiliation = {KARAMANO{\u{G}}LU MEHMETBEY {\"U}N{\.I}VERS{\.I}TES{\.I}}
}
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TY - JOUR AU - Düşgün, Umut TI - Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s “Possible” Dystopia: Şehrin Kuleleri (Towers of the City) T2 - Hacettepe University Journal of the Faculty of Letters VL - 36 IS - 2 PY - 2018 DA - 2018/12/18/ SP - 336 EP - 351 PB - Hacettepe Üniversitesi SN - 1301-5737 DO - 10.32600/huefd.498864 UR - https://hacettepe.hbtech.com.tr/en/publication/tayfun-pirselimoglunun-olasi-distopyasi-sehrin-kuleleri AB - Dystopia, a sub-genre of Speculative Fiction, is rarely seen in Turkish literature. Generally, dystopias are fictions basedon fears, phobias concerning the future. Essentially, these works bring to the fore the warning that “it will becomeworse if things continue to be this way.” Nevertheless, the “possible” dystopia mentioned here is different from sciencefiction and fantasy, and it is used to describe a Kafkaesque bureaucratic dystopia. The term “possible” refers to adystopic theme that the communities experienced before. This dystopic set up is emphasized by the motto “it happenedthis way before; it will happen again, if things continue to be so.”The most notable aspect that differentiates ŞehrinKuleleri (Towers of the City) from dystopian genre is the parodic use of the dystopian theme. The layers of the writer,the narrator and the reader construct a complicated structure within the text, and it is fictionalized through a story thatis free from an exact pattern. The process of the construction of the plot becoming a part of the fiction; thetransformation of the text into a ground of commucation between the reader and the writer/the narrator; the playfulnature of the whole text makes this work distinctive. The aim of this study is to examine Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s novelŞehrin Kuleleri (Towers of the City) both within the context of the dystopian genre and within the line of the conceptsof "ludism" and "traditional narrator," "metafiction." KW - Creative Arts and Writing LA - tr AD - KARAMANOĞLU MEHMETBEY ÜNİVERSİTESİ ER -