A Post-Oriental Reading Of Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle

Abstract

Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, is a Turkish writer with a formidable international reputation. He has written ten novels, which include many successful novels, in terms of the number of copies sold internationally, like The White Castle, My Name is Red and The Museum of Innocence. He is a novelist whose aesthetic sensibility is rooted in his beloved Istanbul, but draws from the tradition of great western novelists.