Function of Intertextual Relations in Araba Sevdası

Intertextuality means that a text is related to other texts and these relationships are created based on different methods. Psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva believes that no text is created from scratch and also a text carries traces from preceding texts, each text directly or indirectly affects each other from different perspectives, and therefore there is no pure text in her concept of intertextuality which she put forward and based on Mihail Bahtin's theory of speech. This view, adopted by literary theorists, forms the theoretical framework of intertextual relations. In this study, Araba sevdası, written by Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, will be examined in terms of intertexual studies. The aims of this study is to put forward which techniques were used in this novel and how they were fictionalized in the perspective of intertextual relations. It is possible to say that intertextual relations have been shown in Araba Sevdası. These kinds of relationships emerge with references to the names of writers and works and are also expressed with quotations created by copying a few sentences exactly. Besides these references, when the novel is examined in the context of intertextual relations it is clear that the pastiche technique was used in order to copy some style of other works.