Change of Identity in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle

Abstract

Ferit Orhan Pamuk who has received international acclaim for his writings is the Turkish first Nobel Laureate. He has penned eight novels, a screenplay, and several works of non-fiction. All the works of Orhan Pamuk are available in English Translation including the seven novels, which have been originally written in Turkish. Each of the eight novels of Orhan Pamuk displays the unstable identity within a specific Turkish historical context. THE WHITE CASTLE adroitly portrays the East-West polarity which is predominant in the works of Orhan Pamuk. In this novel, Pamuk challenges the boundary between the Eastern and the Western patterns of thinking incarnated by his Ottoman ‘master’ and Italian ‘slave’.