![]() Were published, and how he was both celebrated and thumbed down: we finally had I remember the time when his outstanding novels of 1990’s ( The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life) “discovery” by the French, and eventually by the globe, was both positive and The ice, but that all changed when it was awarded Prix de la Découverte Européenne in 1991. His second novel, Silent House (1983) could have broken Regarded as a young novelist with great talent. His command of the Turkish language -this, despite the fact that he was Readers and critics were in doubt about his merits as a story-teller and about Pamuk published his debut novel, Cevdet Bey and His Sons, in 1982, Turkish To observe, I think, is at the core of Nights So we let the foreign readers worry about him, and eventually go into hibernation for yet another five years. Pamuk is cooler than buying and reading him. We won’t even skim through the rest of it, because buying and not reading Mr. ![]() But we don’t seek closure, because by the time our discontent gives way to reserved submission we are on page a hundred and twelve, ready to set the book aside. Orhan Pamuk, our Nobel laureate, publishes a new novel and we, the devout Turkish readers, bear arms, flagging passages that undermine our delicate sensibilities (linguistic and otherwise), wondering how come he - and not other Turkish novelists that we cherish only after they are dead - is widely read. ![]()
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