
Two of his novels have been translated into English. He has written novels, short stories and poetry. He worked as a court bailiff, treasurer and tax officer. Hasan Ali Toptaş, known for his mastery of language use, is regarded as one of the main representatives of the second wave of postmodern literature. Hasan Ali Topta was born in Baklan, southwest Anatolia, in 1958. It is worth noting that, if in the postmodern prose of 1980s was marked by the dominance of "lyrical stream", then in 1990s and 2000s the dominant trend was represented by narrative modification. During this period, the literature of postmodernism develops into a powerful trend, which becomes the predominant trend of the cultural life of Turkey in 2000s. The "second wave" of postmodernism is characterized by the appeal to the literature of symbolic modeling in 1990s. The representatives of the "second wave" (Hasan Ali Toptaş, İhsan Oktay Anar, Perihan Mağden, Kürşat Başar, etc.) were not the object of close research before, and therefore the consideration of their creativity as the next stage in the development of Turkish postmodernism is relevant. Kareva, who consider the features of the postmodern paradigm in their studies within the novelistics of the leading representatives of the Turkish postmodernism "second wave".

The exception is represented by the works of Russian turkologists M.M.

This paper describes the aspects of Turkish postmodernism of the "second wave", which is justified by an insignificant number of theoretical works and inadequate elaboration of studies concerning the representatives of Turkish postmodernism "second wave".

Turkey, Postmodernism, Narrative, Intertextuality, Poetic style.
