Emanet Gölgeler Defteri is Ethem Baran’s second novel. The work tells Yagız’s story of love, education and literacy. Main character has various troubles in university years before 12 September. He cannot get the girl he loves. He cannot succeed in writing. He dies very young. Basic problematics of Emanet Gölgeler Defteri are narration and narrator, reader representative, transfer of consciousness, literacy theme, metafiction. The novel is told by conceptual narrator and experimental narrator. In some sections this narrator types intertwine with each other. In reader representative case, the discourse is directed to the fictional figures, not the reader. In this case, characters undertake the representation of the reader. In the process of transfer of consciousness, techniques of stream of consciousness, flashback and internal dialogue was used. The most important themes of the novel are writing and authorship. In this way, it is considered how a narrative can be written and it is passed from this topic to metafiction. Emanet Gölgeler Defteri reflects the social and political events of 12 September period and some traditions of thirty years ago in Turkey. The work is organized with the fragmented method.