The novel Mütercim as a site of transfiction: A case of translation in life and the translation of life in the transformational republican era in Turkey

Translation has a rich history in Ottoman and Turkish literature, study of transmesis transfiction great potentials for analyzing the praxis pragmatics translation Turkey. This focuses on translational action mirror fiction with case novel Mütercim (2013) [Translator] by Alper Gürkan. Investigating both as performance (i.e., text) an experience agency), analysis is constructed upon four categories: 1) actual its technical sense; (2) agency translator subject object translation; (3) figurative/metaphoric use (4) mistranslation vis-a-vis pseudotranslation. The multi-layered baggage serves site par excellence to delimit definition translation, which begins faithful ends up almost genuine writing, novel. Skillfully imposed attributions change, transformation, fragmentation, dislocation under context determine fate text agent Mütercim: corrupted originally lost. elegy origins resonates discourse author neo- fantasy where we witness emergence lieu historical criticism guise transfiction.