MODERN ROMAN ARAYIŞI ve KALPAZANLAR

This study involves an analysis of Andre Gide's modern novel. The writer, whose motivation was to write a novel that resembled none of his former works, accomplished his desire by writing "The Counterfeiters". The originality of the writer's "first and only novel" lies in the fact that it constructs a character who is also writing a novel entitled "The Counterfeiters". This situation enables the writer to voice his views on the creation of a literary text and modernisation of narrative styles. In order to convey the new narrative elements as well as novelistic reforms, the essay examines the construction of characters and setting, and the narrative structure. The analysis points out the following aspects regarding Gide's novel: modernist depictions that involve a few meaningful elements in the novel, a non-linear narrative, voices without faces, endings that convey the possibility for continuity, narrative playfulness that includes an interplay of various literary genres, different plot structures linked together, novelties in the presentation of characters.