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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   ORHAN PAMUK AND THE FASCINATION OF BOOKS: A CASE OF HAUNTING.

Authors:  ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Orhan Pamuk and the Fascination of Books: A Case of Haunting. A mesmerizing account of a fatherless young man’s quest for the woman he loves, My Name Is Red is, like many other Pamuk novels, a subtle interrogation of the nature of art and textuality and the imitation-innovation dichotomy. Book illumination in the late sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire emerges as an index of national identity, as artistic tension – in this case between two-dimensional and perspectival representations of the palpable world – acquires civic and historical significance. Orhan Pamuk’s novel is not merely a tale of the participation of the individual art-purveyor in historical evolution, but a self-reflexive interrogation of the dilemmas of representation. I investigate these metatextual imbrications of the problematics of authenticity and imitation comparatively in Red and several other Pamuk novels.

Keywords: Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, imitation, representation, textuality 

 
         
     
         
         
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