He spends half the year in New York, where he teaches comparative literature at Columbia, the other half in his hometown, Istanbul, where he speaks truth and gets in trouble.Įven if Pamuk weren’t this physically close, he would be easy to connect with. I don’t know him, but it’s a thrill to know he’s nearby. The least we can do is shout to our readers that he’s here. Orhan Pamuk, one of the world’s great novelists, lives and works within shouting distance of Dissent. But only the novel has the Faustian chutzpah to try to connect all the dots, to put this immense world together. Its images come from movies, old and new, and from television its sounds are rock-and-roll, rap, and heavy traffic on the street. Is there a global culture today? I think there is. In Snow, and in all his best writing, Pamuk creates a drama of modern life in the process of moving toward radical polarization.
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