Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature

by Gloria Fisk

When Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, he was honored as a builder of bridges across a dangerous chasm. By rendering his Turkish characters and settings familiar where they would otherwise seem troublingly foreign, and by speaking freely against his authoritarian state, he demonstrated a variety of literary greatness that testified also to the good literature can do in the world.

Gloria Fisk challenges this standard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231183267
• ISBN13: 9780231183260
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"