Reading Orhan Pamuk's Snow as Parody: Difference as Sameness
2007; Edinburgh University Press; Volume: 4; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3366/e1744185408000098
ISSN1750-0109
Autores Tópico(s)Narrative Theory and Analysis
ResumoIn presenting the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, the Swedish Academy commended him for his discovery of ‘new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures’. 1 The deliberate choice of ‘clash’ is a coded, evocative way of simultaneously bringing up the now well-worn phrase ‘the clash of civilizations’ and disavowing it by replacing ‘civilizations’ with ‘cultures’. This is also carefully balanced with the more positive word ‘interlacings’. However, the impression remains that concerns of political correctness on the Academy's part have affected their language formulation more than their actual thinking. After all, does not the reformulation of this cliché convey cum grano salis the same message as the original that was alluded to, indicating that Pamuk's main problematic is the clash of civilizations ?
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