Demolishing the Boundaries Between Novel and Play -Focusing on the theatrical elements in the novel Snow-

In the postmodern era, the dismantling of genres and breaking down boundaries between genres are steadily expanding in order to meet the expectations of art lovers. In the case of literature, especially in the field of novels, various attempts are being made to break down the genre limit and approach the perspective of the world with a new attitude through combination with other genres. In novels such as 『My Name is Red』 and 『The Museum of Innocence』, Orhan Pamuk became a world-class author by blending postmodernist elements with the unique Turkish literary style in terms of writing, influenced by Western literary theorists and competent writers. In order to highlight the conflict between people with different ideologies in Kars, the novel Snow deal with in this paper, an attempt is made to achieve a dramatic effect by introducing a genre called ‘Play’. The advantage of a play compared to a novel is the liveliness that unfolds on the stage in front of you. By adding a theatrical element in the Pumuk novel, it can be said that the visual effect was added to the imagination given by the text. Above all, it should be noted that the city of Kars, the background of the Pamuk novel, was set to be cut off from the outside due to heavy snow for three days. This is similar to the nature of a play unfolding with a time limit. On the other hand, it is noteworthy that the person who caused the coup, which is an important event in the novel, is set as a theater man named Sunay Zaim. The setting where he begins the coup is also the stage, and the setting that the place where the person who caused the coup dies is also on the stage leaves a strong impression on the readers. In addition, the appearance of repetitive blackouts that correspond to the dark battles of plays in novels, narrations centered on the lines of characters, and sentences such as prints from plays are emerging as examples of crossovers between novels and plays. In addition, the plays <My Motherland or My Headscarf> and <Tragedy of Kars>, which are plays performed in the novel, are not only put on the stage in the novel, but also the theatrical elements are placed in the middle of the novel to naturally break the boundaries between the two genres. It is effective and also serves to show the overall theme and conflict of the novel. The attempted by the writer to introduce theatrical elements into major scenes and events, breaking the boundary between novel and play, or crossover, can be regarded as a combination of the dramatic tension of the play and empathy with the detailed description and description, which are the virtues of the novel. There is ample room to interpret this as an attempt to explore and pursue the direction of modern literature through the experiment of a new narrative structure of genre decomposition and integration.