SUMMING UP ORHAN PAMUK

The greatness of Orhan Pamuk lies in his deft handling of the novel form that has
been exploited towards a realistic portrayal of life as witnessed by the novelist. As all
of his works, until recently, were written in his native Turkish, no full-length critical
work about him and his art could be produced for an English-speaking audience. It
became possible to evaluate his literary art in the West only when his works were
translated into English. Most of these critical responses have come in piece meals and
confined contexts, leaving ample scope for large-scale interpretation. In this
perspective, the current paper is written to make a humble contribution to the existing
body of criticism. Moreover, it is expected that this essay shall provide a sensitizing
introduction to the readers of English Literature in India, for most of them are not
encouraged to study-cum-research on modernist non-English writers.