The Imagined Nation in Orhan Pamuk’s Imagination

Abstract

When Orhan Pamuk , the Turkish Nobel Laureate writes, his nation emerges as multi representations of the past, the self and the present, so that in the imaginative spaces, nations are better understood. Pamuk approaches the dual stances of the nation from the other’s point of view and explores the transcendent space in between the binaries, shifting the very centre he speaks of. Boundaries are transgressed and muted in his nostalgic and ruminative narrations where the author, narrator and the self occupy the position of the other to take the reader out of the labyrinth, and literary texts become exercises of imaginative pursuits of the author along with the reader.