Chronotopic Reading of the Novels of Halide Nusret Zorlutuna

The term Chronotope, which we may interpret as time -space, was put forward by Michael Bakhtin. Chronotope, which in the novel expresses the idea that every time seizes space, offers an important opportunity to understand Turkish novel. Being among the authors lived in the period between the collapse of the Ottoman and the emergence of the Republic, Halide Nusret Zorlutuna‟s novels include the period they witnessed. Hence, the space or location in her novels implies psychological, cosmic, and biographic time. A chronotopic study of her novels would not only facilitate comprehension of complex pattern of events in her novels, but also provide a chance to read historical traces, the biography of the author, psychological and cosmic time through space or location.