Orhan pamuk

 

Orhan pamuk covers in his books, Life pace of passing time. Passing of time is what a novel should help us understand according to him.

Living being is a feeling of time. We live secretly or openly.  That is a strong subject in his books. 

Time is finishing, and we have to be quick. If we are going to ask about Life and death in 20's you are going to be a good writer, but most of us think about it in their 70's. 

Don't exist like a peace of stone, in the remote corner of the world - write about them too in the novels. 

Arts, painting, Architecture, all are possible because of change in space or time. They are two basic categories as per Emmanueals theory. 

In 2003, he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name Is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His novel, The Museum of Innocence, was an international bestseller, praised in the Guardian as 'an enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of storytelling published in 2008.

"Pamuk's artistic accomplishment has been to play West against East, using the European novel's modernist tradition of formal experimentation in order to explore both his country's tangled Ottoman past and its contemporary politico-religious extremes. His books, which interleave Proustian family sagas with dervish allegories and reportage on modern-day paramilitary cults, have roused a furor in Turkey. Older Turkish intellectuals bred on Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's secularist dogma accuse him of playing with religion; Islamists accuse him of blasphemy; old-time leftists accuse him of cashing in. And meanwhile, Pamuk's new prominence in the Kurdish rights movement and his opposition to the police brutality and harsh penal codes that keep Turkey an authoritarian state threaten to alienate his popular audience. ''Columnists write, 'He is a best seller; now he's selling his country,' '' Pamuk says with amusement. ''If you do something new in Turkey, they look at you as a pervert. The future can only come from America.''

"Orhan pamuk is singularly well positioned to become the chronicler of his country's imperial neuroses. Turkey, after all, is not a conventionally third world country but a superpower that once stretched from Baghdad to the gates of Vienna, and Pamuk's own family history exemplifies in microcosm Turkey's efficient transition from a multiethnic empire to a modern nation-state."

Thomas Matt's - Magic Mountain is one of his favourate books. 

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/07/books/the-best-seller-of-byzantium.html