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Relocating the Narrative Voice of Orhan Pamuk on History and
Tradition in My Name Is Red

N. Rema, M.A. (Eng), M.A. (Jour. & Mass Comm), B.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar
and Dr. P. Ilamaran


Courtesy: https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-Red-Orhan-Pamuk/dp/0375706852

Abstract

Narrative is numberless and is omnipresent. Human beings find it natural to employ the narrative to present a story in the life of an individual. The perpetual interest of the story teller irrespective of a common man or a writer employs the medium of narrative to express his profound zeal for the actual events that have occurred in and around him. Pamuk, the most distinguished Turkish novelist, picks up the narrative voice of his self to deeply mourn the lost remembrances and the neglect of the people, to commemorate on their past ideals, traditional ventures, cultural documents and the historical accomplishments. He tries to retrieve some of his experiences, also alluding historical murder, adding fact to the imaginative love story as a way of echoing his longing for Istanbul, Turkey, his native land. The characters are a perfect illustration of the writer’s original voice, who stay smooth and flexible in weaving the multiple narration, linearly constructing the storyline. The multiple narrators always remember to move the narration along with literary ingredients such as drawings, paintings, codes of ancient Turkish models, images manifesting the richness of Istanbul just to proliferate the wonders. History and imaginative fragments are woven to authenticate the inevitability of the past and history.

Keywords: Narrative story, imaginative fragments, historical allusions, past traditions, retrieval, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Read

Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk is the most cherished novelist of 20th century who often delights the readers with his sharp and insightful narration. His characters serve well in expressing the real thought process forcefully clashing in the mind of Pamuk. Pamuk’s early life contributes much of the raw material for all his literary endeavours. His happy yet revolutionary life style, combining antiqueness and moving towards another dimension of their tradition, moving towards a western life has created an imbalance in his mind. Though he dwells most of the time in a foreign land, his natural inclination for his native land has made him switch over to his motherland where he could find immense pleasure than the sophistication that the western nation and culture has provided him with. He could sense the essentiality of the recollection of the past, undue veneration to be given to the past, not as a way of attributing gratitude, but so as to possess an identity both personal and historical. This sense of longing for the past compels him to accept the fact that the entire Ottoman Empire has turned down from its natural native values slowly with the deterioration of the empire. The writer pens down his novels completely relying on the traditional monuments and historical redemptive images to rebuild on the broken past of valid ideals. The growth of Turkey, its vast richness, its loss of treasures from the scene compelling the writer to at least write about the past as a means of remembering the past is clearly evinced.

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N. Rema, M.A., M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil.
Ph.D. Scholar
Department of English
P.S.G. College of Arts and Science
Coimbatore
Tamilnadu
India
remawinenglit@gmail.com

Dr. P. Ilamaran
Associate Professor& Head
Department of English
P.S.G. College of Arts and Science
Coimbatore
Tamilnadu
India
dr.ilamaran@gmail.com

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