• Ms. Ila
• Dr. Shruti Rawal

Orhan Pamuk’s The New Life, The Black book and My Name is Red gives a detailed history of the changes Turkey underwent. The city Istanbul is set as the backdrop of the novels. The Ottoman legacy is romanticized. It makes him go nostalgic, he is seized by a frenzy to capture and preserve his dream scape and write about it. Pamuk has emerged out as a self defined rationalist. He appears skeptical postmodernist and relativist writer. The works have epistemological perspective that is individuality acts as the fountain head. Modern values such as intellectual skepticism, political liberty and social progress flow from it. Pamuk inculcates postmodern techniques those are familiar to the West. This paper will focus on the metaphysical binaries of a post-modern text including dichotomy of self/other and East/West tension and its effects on an individual and city at large. The paper shall tell us how the western culture, studies and art challenge Turkey’s tradition and culture.

Huzun, Oscillation, Postmodernism, East/West, Self/ Other, Bildungsroman literary genre, Doppleganger

"Postmodern Approach in The New Life, The Black Book and My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.402-407, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907054.pdf

"Postmodern Approach in The New Life, The Black Book and My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp402-407, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907054.pdf