I have almost finished reading this novel and it fills me with all kinds of emotions. I would even go so far to say that the novel, written in the first person, makes us males identify with some aspects of the narrator. We all have obsessions of one form or another but in the narrator's case, his obsession over the love of a lady remained over years is extreme. An interesting clip that gives an insight into the writer himself.
as a Muslim and middle eastern, I feel that he writes about me or about many many people whom I meet daily. And this is what makes his novels magical, at least for me!
@timucinkantar Well, u re partly wrong. He had been in Kars for several times before writing his novel. The only paradoxal thing is that he had been there to look for material for the novel he planned to write, Snow (the novel about Eastern Turkey). Whereas the folk of Kars thought Pamuk was a journalist and he would write about their poor condition in town, then maybe the goverment would think to help them a bit...
I have almost finished reading this novel and it fills me with all kinds of emotions. I would even go so far to say that the novel, written in the first person, makes us males identify with some aspects of the narrator. We all have obsessions of one form or another but in the narrator's case, his obsession over the love of a lady remained over years is extreme. An interesting clip that gives an insight into the writer himself.
"I care more about the beauty of a sentence than politics." -Orhan Pamuk
as a Muslim and middle eastern, I feel that he writes about me or about many many people whom I meet daily. And this is what makes his novels magical, at least for me!
dede7201 YOU ARE RIGHT!! I LOVE ALL BOOKS OF PAMUK.
interesting account of the making of a novel that takes you so far from the explanation in it's reading
@timucinkantar
Well, u re partly wrong. He had been in Kars for several times before writing his novel. The only paradoxal thing is that he had been there to look for material for the novel he planned to write, Snow (the novel about Eastern Turkey). Whereas the folk of Kars thought Pamuk was a journalist and he would write about their poor condition in town, then maybe the goverment would think to help them a bit...