Adnan İslamoğulları’s September 2024 detective novel Müntehir, beyond the classical detective novels, calls us to confront the multinational cultural structure of the Ottoman Empire, from which we were separated, lost, but also culturally constructed, while making visible how the process of modernization brought about a mental disintegration and fragmentation in the cultural context. In this context, this study will touch on the relationship between mind and culture, and the relationship between schizophrenia and modernity will be made visible. In addition, the nature of the suicides in the novel will be examined, and their social counterparts will be addressed. Tahir İpek’s eventual suicide and the form of his suicide will be analyzed in the context of modernity and the attitude taken against it, and the imitation aspect of Canip Adalı’s suicide and its being an individual suicide will be emphasized. The integral language of imperial culture and the glossomanic characteristics of this language will be determined through the notebook of Tahir İpek, the main character in the novel. In addition, Tahir İpek's effort to create a whole by blending the love he experienced with his lover, whom he addressed as "Oh beloved", with cultural elements will be reviewed within the framework of Walter Benjamin's concept of "Angel of History" and the collapse of the illusion of wholeness with the disappearance of the lover will be emphasized.