Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
LITERA-JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND CULTURE STUDIES, cilt.31, sa.2, ss.715-731, 2021 (ESCI)
This study examines the narrative structure in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Death in the Andes in terms of elements such as the narrator, narrative modes and temporal framework. Vargas Llosa, one of the authors of the so called "boom" period, which emerged in the 1960s and made Latin American literature attract worldwide attention, skillfully uses innovat ive techniques in his works. His novel Death in the Andes, published in 1993, offers a multi-layered lecture by presenting a story within the story, a labyrinthine structure and fiction. In the novel, the main story revolves around Sergeant Lituma and his deputy Tomas, who are on duty at a police station in Naccos, a mountain village in the Andes, trying to find three people who had recently disappeared and figure out what actually happened. Lituma's adventure of investigation takes thenarration to the terror environment created by the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) guerrillas in the region and also to legends such as ghouls and apus. Also, it's seen that the author brings together many different stories and skillfully connects them using transitions between the past and present. In this context, the aim of the study is firstly to outline the method elaborated by the French philosopher Gerard Genette in his book The Narrative Discourse An Essay in Method and applied to the novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, and secondly to examine the novel Death in the Andes according to this theory.