This article examines the postmodern vision of the national history of Turkey in the works of the popular contemporary Turkish postmodern novelist Ihsan Oktay Anar. The object of attention of the postmodern writer, who presents the country's history as the power of totalitarian discourses over the consciousness of Turks, is the enlightenment discourse and the discourse of the biblical-Quranic tradition. He deconstructs them, reduces them in travesty, recodes them, which is expressed in special artistic means, including pastiche, carnivalization, oxymoronic phrases, etc. Key words: Turkish narrative postmodernism, posthistoric issues, hyperpersonage mask, Ihsan Oktay Anar. The post-non-classical postmodern approach to understanding history is defined by the perception of historical reality as a text (as chaos and as rhizomorphic space) and is mainly aimed at debunking the religious-metaphysical concept of history and the scientific-positivist cult of history that prevailed in the Modern (or Modern) era. The greatest contribution to the development of the postmodern historical concept was made by the works of such famous post-structuralists as M. Foucault, J. Derrida, J.-F. Lyotard, P. de Man, F. Jamieson, R. Rorty, H. White, and others. Summarizing their very diverse and contradictory views, we can say that the main emphasis was placed on the approach to history as a literary text, narrative/innovation/story, highlighting "plots" in it. Jamieson, H. White). In addition, they emphasized the dominance of human instincts (the collective unconscious) in history, which prevent the implementation of global historical projects. In the framework of the latter position, they developed the Nietzschean idea of the "will to power", which mystifies scientific and technological progress, replacing it with an anonymous and polymorphic "will to know" (m. Foucault). The latter was interpreted by them as the desire of people to disguise the " will to power "with a claim to scientific" ... Читать далее