Postmodernism and Poststructuralism: Samuel Beckett and Oguz Atay. A Comparative Study

      Аннотация: This book analyses the postmodernist and poststructuralist elements in Samuel Beckett’s The Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable and O?uz Atay’s Tehlikeli Oyunlar (Dangerous Games). The book aims to present that In Beckett’s and Atay’s novels the main issues of postmodernism and poststructuralism such as subject-object dialectic, the metaphysics of presence, the correspondence theory of truth, origin, self, language, intertextuality and metafiction are analysed. The book contributes to both Beckett and Atay studies as it proposes that both writers problematize the very nature of narrative and display the inefficiency of language, and they successfully create their own “expression of interface”. The book is also unique in terms of its exploration and claim that both Beckett and Atay create a new sphere to show the problem of expression. This new sphere, the interface of expression, is what the book inventively highlights.

Ключевые слова: postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Samuel Beckett, Oguz Atay, The Interface.