Anlatıbilimde Yenilikçi Bir Deneme: Ahmet Mithat Efendi’nin Romanlarında ‘Biz’ Anlatıcı
An Innovative Essay in Narratology: The 'We' Narrator in Ahmet Mithat Efendi's Novels

Summary/Abstract: This study, which examines the ‘we’ narrator that Ahmet Mithat Efendi uses in his novels, which has different characteristics from the classifications of narratology, reveals the innovative side of the author. However, the examined examples provide new data for narratology studies. This study aims to draw attention to the author's novels and to reveal that there are examples outside the borders of narratology. One of the most important elements of the novel genre is the 'narrator'. The narrator is the first element whose voice we hear in a novel. Although this element is handled with different approaches by narratology researchers, the importance of the narrator is emphasized by almost every narrator. No matter how mimetic a fictional text may be, the presence of a narrator is obligatory in every text. The novels of Ahmet Mithat Efendi (d. 1912); are novels that carry the effects of romanticism along with tradition, aim to educate and raise awareness of the reader, and therefore keep the dominance of the narrator strong. It is inevitable for the narrator to be dominant and free, who discusses these issues in his fictional works as well as his writings on science, literature, child education, the necessity of women's reading, social and cultural innovations, European life, the importance of personal enterprise, economics, morality, religion, and law. In this context, the narrator's point of view is mostly in a dominant position. Ahmet Mithat Efendi; is a writer who thinks about the technique as well as the teaching of the novel and does not hesitate to try innovations while performing his art. This aspect of his, by providing diversification of his narrator, carried the author to a different point from other novelists of the period. In this study; After examining the definitions and classifications of the 'narrator', Ahmet Mithat Efendi's essay on the narrator 'we', which is an original usage that does not fit the narrator's classification of the narrators, used in his novels; It will be tried to be illustrated with examples taken from the author's novels. The results obtained by examining this technique, which the author applies in the form of including the 'narrator' and the 'interlocutor' in the fictional world of the novel, will present new data to the 'narrator' classifications of narratology. As a result, we can say that; Although Ahmet Mithat Efendi is a writer who gives the first examples of the Turkish novel, the fact that he makes an essay that preserves its originality even today reveals that the author is willing and brave about new applications and thinking about the art of the novel. The ‘we’ narrator used in these early examples of the novel genre maintains its originality even today as a technique that is outside of the narrator's classifications of narratology and that puts the (fictional) narrator and the interlocutor into the fictional world and communicates with the heroes of the novel.

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