Plot collisions of Akhmet Umit's detective novel "The People" (2006)
Abstract
This article is devoted to the structural and substantive analysis of one of the most famous detective novels by the popular Turkish writer Ahmet Umit "The People" (2006), which stands somewhat apart in the mainstream of his work. The article shows that, unlike other detective stories by the author, the action immediately begins with a crime, and as the plot develops, more and more murders enter the narrative orbit. In parallel with the detective line, the novel develops the idea of multiculturalism in Turkey, in which different peoples and religions have long lived in peace and harmony (Christians, Muslims, Jews). Hence the title of the novel, which is not about some specific people, but about peoples historically coexisting within the framework of a single Turkish state. The purpose of the study is to substantiate that this novel fits into the writer's detective paradigm from the point of view of poetological features. The article analyzes the plot and compositional features of the novel with an emphasis on plot collisions and the image system. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the novel in question "Umita" for the first time becomes an object of analytical study in the domestic Turkological literary criticism. For the first time, the problems of the novel are considered through the prism of its structural and meaningful content. For the first time, it is proved that the artistic structure of the novel is somewhat unusually constructed for the author's detective paradigm. As a result, it is proved that the poetics and plot of the novel correlate with the historical detective genre developed by A. Umit in its most diverse variants.
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Publication history
- Received: June 15, 2024.
- Published: July 29, 2024.
Keywords
- турецкая беллетристика
- детективный роман
- сюжетные коллизии
- Ахмет Умит
- роман «Народ»
- Turkish fiction
- detective novel
- plot collisions
- Ahmet Umit
- novel "The People"
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