Father-son relationship In Hasan Ali Toptaş's novels :|Kuşlar Yasına Gider and Sonsuzluğa Nokta

Abstract

The aim of this study is to show how the father-son relationship in Hasan Ali Toptaş’s novels reveals the fictional structure of novels. For this purpose, novels Sonsuzluğa Nokta and Kuşlar Yasına Gider, whose primary theme is the father-son relationship, are analyzed. Within the context of this relationship, the novels are considered as a whole, based on the determination that Sonsuzluğa Nokta is a storyline included in Kuşlar Yasına Gider. The representation of father-son relationship in novels and the literary implications of this representation have been analyzed within the framework of memory theory. The father-son relationship which is presented through the use of analepsies in the novel Sonsuzluğa Nokta is ambiguous because the nature of this relationship is perpetually reversed from pro to con, and vice versa by the narrator. The novel Kuşlar Yasına Gider, in which the narration time and the event time are the same, it’s seen that the nature of father-son relationship is again ambiguous, and there is also displacement between the father and son’s positions. In the thesis, it is also argued the ambiguity and cyclicity found in these novels within the framework of the father-son relationship contributes to the creation of metafiction. In brief the study shows how the father-son relationship in Hasan Ali Toptaş’s novels has turned from being a simple thematic element into a literary strategy manifesting its own fictionality through the examination of these two novels.