JULIA KRISTEVA’NIN BİZANS’TA CİNAYET ADLI ROMANINDA ANLATI YERLEMLERİ
THE NARRATIVE PLOT OF JULIA KRISTEVA’S MURDER IN BYZANTIUM

Summary/Abstract: Julia Kristeva received France’s prestigious distinction of “Chevalier de la Legion d' honneur” in 1997 due to her studies translated into ten languages and spanning for thirty years; and she got Norway Holberg Prize in 2004 and Hannah Arendt Award in 2006. Just like the thinkers and authors of foreign origin in areas of literature and philosophy such as Ionesco, Adamov, Beckett, and Derrida, she has a special place among the French intelligentsia. Her works which have been translated into various languages cover a large area from literary criticism and psychoanalysis to political philosophy. Kristeva’s interest in the novel genre began in the 90s. It can be observed that she has spread her theoretical studies and the intellectual, linguistic, and cultural tenets of her articles to a wider audience with the help of the novel genre. Thus, writing fiction becomes one of her preoccupations among many others. In this study, we will analyze Kristeva’s polymorphic, hybrid and polyphonic novel, Murder in Byzantium, in which the historical, metaphysical detective and the mixed narrative techniques are used. We will analyze the main themes, point of views, narrative voice, narration types, significant novel characters, time and space relationships by applying both structuralist and post- structuralist criticism.

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