Labyrinth of Possibilities in the Context of the Theoretical Reader Model in Bilge Karasu's Kısmet Büfesi

The approaches text-oriented and author used in the study of works have been losing their influence since the second half of the 20th century. Reader-centered readings acquire importance among literary criticism and theories. Modern and postmodern writers create some emptiness in their texts. Completion of such emptiness from the terms of contextual and formal lefts to the reader's power of interpretation Bilge Karasu, one of the important writers of modern Turkish literature is one of the writers who put the reader into the center of her works. Kısmet Büfesi reflects the reader's perspective and imagination therefore this work has an important place in reader-centered readings. This work researches the theoretical reader model and how the author interprets the text he narrates as a reader. The theoretical reader can have a condition that interprets every possible situation in the maze of possibilities. The aim of this research constitutes to reveal that the author is undermining the role of the theoretical reader and that are constructed depending on the possibilities of the stories in Kısmet Büfesi. In examined stories, it is concluded that anything which is shown and narrated by the author has the possibility of existence or impossibility also the fragility of absolute reality in fictional texts was concluded.