Unequal Periods Of Time Relations In The Story “Atadan Kalgan Tuyak” By C. Aytmatov

In narratology, the concept which should be searched first under the classification of “duration” is read time. Gerard Genette (1980) is the one who puts forth the speed and rhythm of the narration, which is a measurable concept, instead of read time. Speed is the relationship between chronic and spatial dimensions of a work of art (such as a few meters in a minute or a few minutes in a few meters etc.) as speed of narration is a concept expressed via the relationship between time (the story time measured by seconds, minutes, hours, days and years) and length (length of script measured by lines and pages). It is impossible to measure this exactly since necessary time to read a script depends on lots of external factors. Read time may show changes with regard to reader’s speed of reading, content of the script, reader’s ability to understand, and the environment in which she/he reads. The time passing by in the story may not be divided into periods equally on the basis of the author’s intention. In other words, there always stand unequal periods of time: “anisochrony”. While constructing the story “Atadan Kalgan Tuyak”, Aytmatov not only presents the periods of story time and narration time as a complicated whole, after weaving these two together; but he also carries out the rhythm applications in it. He utilizes from such methods as discontinuance, stage, summary and ellipse in order to perform the rhythm of narration. Furthermore, he slows down it whenever he wants, and vice versa. According to this, as Genette expresses, narration can be constituted with time inequalities-anachrony; however, it Ç. Aytmatov’un Atadan Kalgan Tuyak... 1483 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 4/3 Spring 2009 is not probable without unequal periods of timeanisochrony.