THE SIMULATED CONNECTIONS IN ORHAN PAMUK’S THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE: A POSTMODERNIST STUDY

Abstract

This present study tries to investigate postmodern concept of simulation in the genre of fiction. It emphasizes upon relationship between imagery and real.  Imagery and real are both directly related to the process of recreation of the real, which becomes hyper-real. In general, simulation is considered a process accompanied by the homogeneity and conformity of sign to the real as a single entity that is developed through a system of models. This system of symbols and models develops connections between objects and their consumers and develops a consuming society for simulated objects. Therefore, simulation goes ahead and the image inspires the attention as the real and replaces it. The present study presents simulated connections between the real and the imagined love between the main characters of the Turkish masterpiece. The study contributes to the relationship between semiotics and postmodernism concept of fluid nature of social reality and its presentation in the genre of fiction in the non-native English Literature.