IF DEDE KORKUT PARTICIPATED TO CRIME: FICTION OF DETECTIVE NOVEL IN YARIMÇIQ ELYAZMA

Yarımçıq Elyazma is novel of Kemal Abdulla that is published in Azerbaijan in 2004 and is defined first postmodern novel of Azerbaijan. In Yarımçıq Elyazma, there is a new interpretative story of Dede Korkut, which is directly and clearly related to the original Dede Korkut Stories, revealing the situation that Gérard well-known Genette expresses as transtextuality. This story contains known events and people of Dede Korkut Stories, which is one of the two main events circles of the novel, is a form of detective novel with a postmodern novel style. In the novel, crime and enigma, which is one of the basic principles of detective fiction, is compensate by the question of who released the spy in Oguz, when he was caught. The investigator Bayındır Han and his secretary Dede Korkut resembles the detective and assistant duo in the detective fictions. Bayındır Han chooses Dede Korkut as a helper to record the investigations and he calls him as Korkut Oğul. The most remarkable person in the novel is Dede Korkut, because of the differentiating aspects of the Dede Korkut from the supreme personality seen in Dede Korkut Stories. The reader know since the beginning of the text that Dede Korkut, who is also the narrator of the text, has been participated to crime. Two story in the novel, one of the stories about Shah Ismail and the other Dede Korkut Stories, are constantly cut each other at the most exciting points. The curiosity of the reader is kept alive throughout the novel. In the three forewords at the beginning of the text in which the text is analyzed with metafiction, the non-stop questions produced by the narrator in the outer frame continue to increase the attention of the reader. This article will show how the patterns of classic detective novels in Yarımçıq Elyazma are deconstructed through parody and irony. In this paper, traces of the transformation of the views of Dede Korkut Stories in Yarımçıq Elyazma into a detective novel fiction, which manifests itself as hypotext and transformed into postmodern novels by using various intertextuality techniques, will be traced; relation of the author's application to this kind of fiction with tendencies of postmodernism and the fiction of original Dede Korkut Stories will be analyzed.

Keywords

Yarımçıq Elyazma, Kemal Abdulla, Dede Korkut Stories, postmodernism, detective novel.