Reading the Orhan Pamuk’s Novel Named A Strangeness in My Mind in the Context of ‘Conflict and Migration Culture Model’ / Orhan Pamuk’un Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık Adlı Romanını ‘Çatışma ve Göç Kültürü Modeli’ Bağlamında Okumak
Orhan Pamuk’s novel A Strangeness in My Mind which is considered as a postmodern novel with its fiction, style and the narrative coordinates is the 43-year story of the life of the protagonist named Mevlut Karataş in which he migrated from his hometown Beyşehir to İstanbul. From 1969 to 2012, thi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cyprus International University
2020-02-01
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| Series: | Folklor/Edebiyat |
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| Online Access: | https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/954858258_fe101-1.pdf |
| Summary: | Orhan Pamuk’s novel A Strangeness in My Mind which is considered as a
postmodern novel with its fiction, style and the narrative coordinates is the
43-year story of the life of the protagonist named Mevlut Karataş in which he
migrated from his hometown Beyşehir to İstanbul. From 1969 to 2012, this process
witnessed the social, political and economic events of the period. Although Mevlut
works in many different jobs in Istanbul such as yoğurt, ice cream and pilaff seller
and car park guard, he mainly defines himself as boza seller. Istanbul, described
from the eyes of many people in the novel, its streets and its experience spring to
life with different meanings in Mevlut’s mind. This city is the only witness of the
strangeness in his mind that no one knows or in a more accurate way, he can’t share
with anyone. Mevlut’s strangeness in his mind is based on thoughts about love,
happiness and choices. Mevlut, who links the main reason for the strangeness in his
mind to the changes in the political, economic, social events and situations of the city and questions the events from this point of view, relates it to his observations
throughout his entire life. The hero’s first conflicts with work, education and human
relations change course with his marriage. The conflict came out by the marriage
with the woman whom he chosed instead of her sister as a result of a deception
turns into a question in the inner world of him after a while. Throughout her life
the city remains alone with its fate and oddities. İstanbul was called as the name
of loneliness and alienation, where he emigrated with the desire to have a more
healthy life for Mevlut, who tried to hold on to this city while he was fighting for
life in Istanbul. Mevlut who reveals a balance of his life and admits to himself that
his true love was his first wife, Rayiha, at the end of the novel will continue his
journey on the streets of the city with the strangeness of life intention, choice and
happiness in his mind. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-7491 1300-7491 |