...Bruce Robbins In this interview, conducted at Columbia University in the fall of 2013, Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk discusses the trajectory of his own novels, what has and has not changed in the genre's social aspirations and challenges, its characteristic topics and settings, its...

...R. A. Judy “Literature,” Orhan Pamuk once remarked, “is the greatest treasure we, humanity, have to discuss and to understand ourselves; and now, the most popular, most intelligent, most flexible form of literature today, in the last two hundred years in fact, is the great art of the novel...

.... The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk sees East and West as the “two spirits of Turkey as one.” He also views the “eternal fight between East and West, that takes place in Turkey’s spirit, not as a weakness but as a strength.” In turn, he dramatizes “that force by making something literary out of it.”19...

... 1977: 386). It is impressive that this gets stated. It is more impressive still that although Eliot s spokesmen do not agree with it, the novel leaves this statement unrefuted. In Orhan Pamuk s Snow, to mention another modern classic, no major character speaks on behalf of the poor, and yet poverty...

..., Oh Jung-hee, Sung Suk-je, Paik Nakchung, and Kim Seong-kon from Korea, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Le Clézio, Margaret Drabble, Gary Snyder, Oe Kenzaburo, Jean Baudrillard, Orhan Pamuk, Bei Dao, and others from boundary 2 34:1 (2007)  DOI 10.1215/01903659-2006-033  © 2007 by Duke University Press...

... canon of world literature, writers like Orhan Pamuk, Roberto Bolaño, and Yoko Tawada have displaced Italo Calvino, Gabriel García Márquez, and Assia Djebar as focuses of interest. It might even be able to explore differences in the worldwide reception of a particular contemporary writer, say...

.... All seems insipid and worthless.” More recently, Orhan Pamuk wryly commented in an interview, “When Proust wrote on love, everybody read it as universal love; when I write about love, they call it Turkish love.”12 He does not mention how strenuously and craftily Proust advocates for his idea...

... the crest of the print revolution, may come in Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame, in the boast “this will kill that”: the book will replace architecture as the people’s teacher. A recent, extraordinarily complex instance of this struc- ture, no longer so confident, comes in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow...

... to stage their political implications. So, in a very different context, they erupt into the fury of the lead Islamist in Snow, Orhan Pamuk’s politi- cal novel about the battles around religion in contemporary Turkey. In the 158 boundary 2 / Spring 2013 novel, Blue, the charismatic Islamist, cries...

..., fueled his works impacts on Friedrich Nietzsche, André Gide, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Jean- Paul Sartre, Richard Wright, Albert Camus, and Ralph Ellison. Without all the turbulence that Dostoevsky inflicted on those writers, a turbulence still active in Orhan Pamuk s...

... Man, Fredric Jameson—must rely on translations for the Koran, Orhan Pamuk, Dostoyevsky, The Tale of Genji And I think it would be a shame if critics stimulated by work from all over the planet felt disqualified from comment on anything in languages in which they lack ‘‘literary competence...

... is another. They both switched their mother language for the lan- guage of their choice. Orhan Pamuk is yet another example—he didn’t have to switch languages. Yet these are above all moral issues, it seems to me. This is to say that Nabokov and Conrad did not really universalize or glob- alize...