Söylem Filoloji Dergisi

Öz

The literary works are presented to the reader with various narrative techniques and they meet the reader with different meanings. The artist reflects his/her feelings and thoughts on his/her work with different expressions by developing new perspectives. "Interior monologue" and "stream of consciousness" are techniques that add value to the literary texts based on narrative methods, thus they have been subject to different readings and reviews. With these two techniques, the writer entrusts the word to the character in the story and novel and brings the reader closer to the text. She/he makes the reader face the hero's inner world. In this way, the reader tries to make sense of the text and to complete it. "Interior monologue" and "stream of consciousness" are among the most frequently used narrative techniques in modernist literature. As a unique representative of modernist literature in Turkish literature, Oguz Atay has used these two narration techniques in his novels and stories. In this study, we will examine Atay's  " The Forgotten", which is a very rich text in terms of modernist narrative techniques, in terms of "interior monologue" and "stream of consciousness" techniques. In the paper, we will first make a conceptual evaluation of the "interior monologue" and "flow of consciousness" techniques, then discuss how Atay approaches these in his works and his view of these techniques in the world of literature. We will examine "The Forgotten" in terms of the use of the narrative techniques mentioned. We will try to reveal the different meanings and rich connotations of the text by specifying the value added by these techniques. Around the character, storyteller, and perspective, we will discuss individual's interior speech, conscious, family relation, thoughts of life and death, and place in modern life with reference to use of these techniques.