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- Title
Christoph Ransmayr'ın Son Dünya Romanında Büyülü Gerçekçilik.
- Authors
SARIŞIK, Derya; DUMAN KAYA, Ezgi
- Abstract
Magical realism generally associated with postmodern concept of art is a literary movement derived from the Latin American literature in twentieth century. The most important determinant of magical realism is that the miracles and extraordinary events which take place in the real world, are perceived in the form of ordinary events. In magical realism it is essential that real and unreal, ordinary and extraordinary are in harmony without any conflict. In this study, Christopher Ransmayr's novel "The Last World" is evaluated within the context of magical realism. In "The Last World", the transformation of Battos into a stone, the transformation of Procne and Philomela to a swallow and nightingale as well as Tereus's to a hoopoe bird when he raised his axe to Procne and Philomela, intending to kill them for revenge, are the most drastic examples for transformations among others which takes place in real world like an ordinary event. In this article, elements such as ordinariness, hybridity, authorial reticence, uncertainty, alienation of magical realism have been thoroughly investigated in "The Last World" and also, time, setting, style and mythological elements in the novel have been tried to be evaluated within the context of magical realism.
- Publication
Journal of Faculty of Letters / Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi, 2017, Vol 34, Issue 1, p159
- ISSN
1301-5737
- Publication type
Article