YENİÖTESİ EVRENİN YANSISI KÜÇÜREK BİR ANLATI: JEAN ECHENOZ’DAN BEN GİDİYORUM
A MINIMALIST NOVEL AS THE REFLECTION OF THE POSTMODERN UNIVERSE: JEAN ECHENOZ’S I’M GONE

Summary/Abstract: The chain of destruction beginning from the first half of the 20th century which will change the fate of the humankind no matter what their language, religion, and race is, causes many mutations and transformations in literature besides sociology, philosophy, epistemology and such areas. The postmodernist period, of course, witnesses one of these most striking transformations. In the literature of this period, in which the idea of freedom is highly reflected, traditional novel references begin to appear as deconstructed. The postmodern writers wanting to move their novels to new horizons in a period of transition at the beginning of the 20th century present the notion of reality within a fantastic environment by removing the boundaries of traditional novel instead of reflecting it as it is. These novels which are different from the conventional fiction are constructed by using postmodern techniques. Minimalism, which is considered as to be created by postmodernism against the modernist tendency and has been transferred to literary field from architecture/fine arts, is one of the new movements in modern French literature. In this paper, our purpose is to read Jean Echenoz’s I’m Gone, which brings him the Goncourt prize, by using a minimalist and postmodernist critical approach. We have tried to figure out the relationship and interaction between postmodern period and its literary extension by questioning Jean Echenoz’s perception of the new social structure of the postmodern period and its dominant idea.

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