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The White Castle is a historical novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. First published in Turkish in 1985 and in English in 1990, the story is told via flashback from the present day to the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire, where the narrator—a young Italian academic—becomes a slave to a Turkish scholar named Hoja, to whom he bears a striking resemblance.
The White Castle. On a voyage from Venice to Naples, a twenty-two-year-old Italian is captured by Turkish pirates and brought to Istanbul. THE WHITE CASTLE is a record of his subsequent ...
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The story is about a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples who is taken prisoner by the Ottoman Empire. Soon after, he becomes the slave of a scholar known as Hoja (master), a man who is about his own age, and with whom he shares a strong physical resemblance. Hoja reports to the Pasha, who asks him many questions about science ...
The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Pamuk, Orhan. The White Castle. George Braziller, 1985. Orhan Pamuk's third novel, The White Castle, begins with a frame story in which the author of the preface, Faruk Darvinoğlu, claims he has found a seventeenth-century manuscript in the governor's forgotten archive in Istanbul.
Jan 1, 2001 · Beyaz Kale = The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk The story begins with a frame tale in the form of a preface written by historian Faruk Darvinoglu (a character referenced in Pamuk's previous book, Silent House) between 1984 and 1985, according to the fictional dedication to the character's late sister at the beginning of the frame tale.
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Mar 20, 2015 · The White Castle (1985), by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Victoria Holbrook. The White Castle is a short novella of only 145 pages, but it took me forever to read. It’s a title from the Faber Firsts collection, celebrating the first novels of such authors as Peter Carey (Bliss), Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar) and William Golding (Lord of the Flies ...
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Apr 16, 1991 · The American debut of a short (164-page), elegant, and intellectually provocative novel by acclaimed Turkish writer Pamuk—a novel that asks, in the voice of one character, Why I am what I am. A contemporary scholar publishes a recently discovered 17th-century manuscript that tells the story of an Italian student, captured by Turks and brought to Istanbul. There, the student uses his medical ...
