Kazuo İshiguro'nun when we were orphans ve never let me go adlı romanlarında korku faktörü olarak poesk mekan

As an element of literature, space plays an important role on the evocation of certain feelings because space is not only a container of things but it is a subjective reality. The meaning of the space depends on the person who attaches meaning to it. In Poe's stories, it is the narrator who forges the meaning of space based on his most important tool, stories. Gothic fiction is probably the most typical example in which space is used to create different moods and emotions. Gothic uses this element to create a horrid atmosphere filled with darkness and unknown. Edgar Allan Poe, as a gothic fiction writer, owes his gothic effect largely to the narrator's perception and understanding of space. Radiating from the narrator's mind, Poe's space uncannily echoes everywhere. While Poe masterfully manipulates the imagination of his narrator, he successfully draws his reader to this horrid space. The contemporary writer Kazuo Ishiguro echoes Poe in terms of the concept of space in his novels. For both Poe and Ishiguro, the uncanny and doubles are extremely important elements. Both writers use these elements in order to blur the boundaries of reality. Threatening the boundaries of reality leads to doubts as to taken-for-granted definitions. Besides, stories play an important role in creating space for both Ishiguro and Poe. This thesis aims to follow the projections of the methods used by Kazuo Ishiguro in his novels Never Let Me Go and When We Were Orphans, such as narration or storytelling, doubles, unknown and uncanny which Edgar Allan Poe uses to create his gothic space.