Abstract
Object-Narrators and An Example from Our Literature: Bir Liranın Başından Geçenler
Circulation novels, which became widespread in England in the XVIIIth century, are referred to by names such as “it-narrative”, “object narrative”, “object tales”. The main feature of these novels is that their narrators are inanimate objects such as coins, teacups, goose feathers, whips, or various animals. These inanimate objects or animals tell the stories of the places they traveled and the people they encounter. In this study, by giving information about the mentioned novel genre, the novel of Kemal Râgıb Enson, which we think is the first example of this type in Turkish literatüre -Bir Liranın Başından Geçenler (The adventures of a lira)- is introduced. In addition, other novels and stories that use object narrators, although they do not fully comply with the definition of circulation novels, were also mentioned. The differences of these novels and stories from circulation novels have been determined. In this context, relation between object and literature, and the possibilities provided by the object narrator to the novel were discussed.
Keywords
circulation novel, object narrator, object and literature
