An analysıs of tıme ın adalet ağaoğlu’s dar zamanlar tetralogy

Adalet Ağaoğlu’s tetralogy Dar Zamanlar, which includes Ölmeye Yatmak, Bir Düğün Gecesi, Hayır and Dert Dinleme Uzmanı, is fictionalised with different temporal techniques. Investigating the answer of the question about the temporal strategy of the novels is the main argument of the study and thus, it is aimed to probe how time is organized and formed in the narratives of the tetralogy. In line with this purpose, with reference to Gerard Genette’s analysis on time in Narrative Discourse, this study contains both the analysis of the deviation of temporal structure of the novels through anachronic elements such as analepsis and prolepsis and how time changes through techniques like summary, lapses, ellipsis and stage. Here at, some findings are presented about Dar Zamanlar. The time in Ölmeye Yatmak is arranged and shaped from different angles. It is educed that temporal structure of Bir Düğün Gecesi is built on four different time periods and that time changes are related to the movement. The existence of inflecting time connected to the parallel universes is unveiled in Hayır. Also, it is deduced that in Dert Dinleme Uzmanı the narrator plays with time without mentioning the names of the time periods and the reason of the application of the analepsises is the association factor. So, it is concluded that time notion is problematized in the tetralogy which enables the writer to reflect different temporal understandings and that a wide range of subjects are fictionalized in a short period of time.