The Protagonist and the City: Istanbul in Orphan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind and The Museum of Innocence
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 4, Number3. August 2020 Pp.87-96
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no3.7
The Protagonist and the City: Istanbul in Orphan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind and
The Museum of Innocence
Abdulrahman Mokbel Mahyoub Hezam
Department of English, Faculty of Arts
Taiz University, Yemen
&
Department of Languages and Translation
Faculty of Science and Arts
Taibah University, Al-Ola, Saudi Arabia
Abstract:
The study is an attempt to focus on one of the world’s biggest cultural cities; Istanbul through the works of one of Turley’s great modernist writers Orphan Pamuk. The study tries to answer the following question: How does Pamuk use the personal stories of his characters to chronicle the historical development of Istanbul? Two novels have been selected for the study; A Strangeness in My Mind and The Museum of Innocence. The significance of the study lies in trying to show how these two texts, not only reveal the writer’s reflections on urban space, but also show the character’s experience in urban space and how the author uses these experiences to chronicle the history of the city. The study shows that the role of Istanbul in Pamuk’s novels moves from the setting for the action to an active element of the action and relation between the characters in these novels and Istanbul is a relation that evolves with time, wherein, both the variables are influenced by the action of one another.
Keywords: Istanbul, Pamuk, Turkish novel, urban literature
Cite as: Hezam, A. M. M. (2020). The Protagonist and the City: Istanbul in Orphan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind and The Museum of Innocence. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies 4 (3) 87-96 .
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no3.7
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