Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Can Eryümlü’s novel “Son Antlaşma” (The Last Treaty), published in 2001, is a work that should be considered, with both its fiction and its content, in terms of the concepts of “reconstruction of history, ukronia, utopia and fantasy” in the Turkish novel of the Republican period. The novel consists of a complex series of events overlapping in time and space. A group of scientists produced a semi-organic computer called Odysse in 1961. This computer enables travel in both time and space. Starting from 1961, scientists have been using the Odysse to try to reconstruct “man and civilization” by going back and forward in history. However, no matter which time period they go to, every job they do and every action they take coincides with the events in the historical line. Eryümlü brings a different, fictional perspective to the known historical flow. Ultimately, the source of civilization and belief systems in the world is again shown to be as humans. These points in the novel overlap with the concept of “ukronia”, which is the subject of our study. Since there have been conceptual studies on the term ukronia, an in-depth examination of the place and history of the concept in Turkish and world literature has not been made in this study. The concept of “ukronia”, which is discussed in general terms, will be discussed as a “hypothetical view of history” in this study. The novel was examined in terms of the concepts of “science fiction, fantasy, utopia” as well. In addition, the novel Son Antlaşma (The Last Treaty) was examined thematically and the content of the work was given in general terms.