A JOURNEY BETWEEN THE REAL WORLD AND THE REALM OF DREAMS

Despite the fact that most critics handle magical realism in relation to postcolonialism as is seen in the examples of Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie for instance; Nazl? Eray’s works stand at a point where magical realism and postmodernism intersect. Therefore this study focuses on magical realism in relation to its affinity to postmodernism. In accordance with it the book includes a textual and technical reading and analysis of the selected texts by Nazl? Eray namely the two novels called Love Does Not Live Here Any Longer (Do?an Egmont 2013) and The Mystery of the Frej Apartment (Everest Publishing 2018). That means the real and the magical are dealt with in relation to their connections to the ontological properties rather than their anthropological connections or their relation to extra-textual context. Thus ontology is privileged over anthropology and text over context.