Güvenilmez Anlatıcı İle Okurun Şüpheli Sözleşmesi: Bu Kitabı Çalın
The Unreliable Narrator and the Reader’s Dubious Contract: Bu Kitabı Çalın (Steal This Book)

Summary/Abstract: In many literary theory-oriented studies, there are discussions on the im/possibility for an author to produce a work without any trace of self. Moving beyond these debates, Wayne C. Booth, while questioning how far fiction can remain independent of rhetoric, introduces the concept of the “implied author” and presents the derivatives represented by the author. This tacit image is constructed by an implied author, sometimes with less knowledge, sometimes deliberately creating gaps and reinforcing irony. It is shaped by the distance consciously or unconsciously left by the presumed narrator created by the implied author. In this study, the term narrator, which is defined differently by communicative and poetic narrative theory is discussed through the output of literary production. The scope of the article is Murat Gülsoy’s book Bu Kitabı Çalın (Steal This Book) and especially the story of the same name, which is thought to be a good example of why the unreliable narrator is included in the narrative and how he directs the text by mentioning the differences between the production and reception of narrative through the paradigms put forward by structuralist / classical and post-classical narratology. In this context, the roles of the unreliable narrator in a reader’s contract specific to the short story genre are evaluated. Based on the distinction between metanarrative and metafiction as narrative devices, narrative levels are discussed and the requirements of the illusion effect in the literary work are questioned. Thus, the interlocutors of the author and the narrator in the reception-oriented model are interpreted.

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