![]() ![]() Pamuk is a storyteller with as much gumption and narrative zip as Scheherazade. ![]() Second-rate philosopher pretending to be a novelist. At this point, many readers of this review will yawn: not "The White Castle" is a fable of identity, a post-modern tale that explores the murky and recessive byways of Cartesian self-consciousness. Third novel - is the first to be translated into English (and the luminous translation, by Victoria Holbrook, is such that one could easily believe the novel was written in English). A fourth novel has recently appeared in Turkish. Novel was a slim modernist tale told from several viewpoints that prompted comparisons with the work of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. Pamuk apparently established himself overnight in 1982 with a massive realistic novel along the lines of "Buddenbrooks" that tracks the fortunes of a wealthy Istanbul family over three generations in this century. And if "The White Castle" is representative of his fiction, he has earned the right to comparisons with Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, both of whom preside over this novelīorn in 1952, Mr. May 19, 1991, Sunday, Late Edition - FinalĪ new star has risen in the east - Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish writer. Pirates, Pashas and the Imperial Astrologer ![]()
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