SWEET DREAMS: PSYCHO-ABSURD ROMANTIC COMEDY

Sweet Dreams, the first book of Alper Canıgüz, published by İletişim Publishing in 2000; Since the first day of its publication, it has published a total of about 25 editions. The serial I have is from İletişim publications and our book consists of 186 pages. Currently, he continues to publish his books through Alfa Publishing. Although he already has 7 different publications, his readers eagerly await new publications from him.

The story begins with an interesting advertisement that Hector Berlioz, who is Half Turkish, Half French, saw in the newspaper. “I SELL MY LIFE! A healthy 25-year-old, well-educated, bilingual young man sells a part of his life to buy the rest. Those who are interested can make an appointment by contacting the phone number below. (Canıgüz, 2019: 7)

Since this advertisement is also on the back cover of the book, the author easily draws attention from the first page. The first part of the story begins with Hector Berlioz reaching the owner of the advertisement, and our main characters greet us in the second part. Olcayto Fişek, a psychoanalyst who teaches as a professor of psychology at a university where there are not very enlightened students, and Şevket Hakan Tunçel, who thinks that there is another person just like him in his dreams when he sleeps, are the two main protagonists of our book and what brings these two together is Hector Berlioz. The reason for this intersection gives us the main theme of the book.

As stated on the cover of the book, although the plot of the story, written in the psycho-absurd romantic comedy genre, may seem complicated at first, it helps us a lot in understanding the plot and establishing the contexts after the fourth part of the story. Our professor, Olcayto Fişek, helps Şevket Bey find answers to his questions by controlling his brain waves during his dreams and preserving the P330 wave, which Şevket Bey gave his name, during sleep.

Sweet Dreams has something that will raise the reader's interest in the academic terms in the book. Academic information written in everyday language but compressed in between also gives satisfaction to the reader. Since the plot consists of dialogues rather than monologues, the reader is far from boring. Likewise, the environments and elements in the story bring the reader closer to the context with their adequacy in terms of descriptions.