CARNIVALESQUE ELEMENTS IN THE GÖÇ NOVEL

Abstract

Azerbaijani writer Mevlüt Süleymanlı's Göç (Migrations) novel, tells long history of Karakelle generation and focus important people's life of this generation. In this work, the migration novel was examined ın the context of Mikhail Bahtin 's carnival theory. A generation's important people placed at the center of the narrative. This situation is quashed the flow of classic novel but it allows to hear different sounds ın the novel. Throughout the dramatic action that is constituent narrative pattern, experienced many unusual events in Karakelleler's mythical history who are changed to resident life from nomadism. The fictional people's strange habit and behaviours that from creation and the surreal events, add fairytale and a mythological reality. The life that is continued in dreams, spells and hugenessses, transport a multicolored world to the novel. With the plurality and complexity in narrative pattern the Göç (Migration), is carried on site many features that Mikhail Bahtin determined for carnivalesque novel. This novel was used oppositions like death/birth/regeneration, madness/ wisdom and imageries like wedding/ feast. From this point the novel can be appreciated as a carnivalesque novel. Also, ın the novel was used a different perception of reality. In this respect the novel is acceptable as a carnivalesque novel.