ARRATIVES WITHIN NARRATIVES: EAST-WEST SYNTHESIS IN "KIRMIZI SACLI KADIN" BY ORHAN PAMUK

Orhan Pamuk, who is one of the authors of contemporary Turkish Literature and got the Nobel Prize with his work named "Kar", used important narratives of the east and west as a theme in his last work "Kirmizt Sach Kadin." In this work which contains an east-west synthesis he was influenced by an essential theme of a Western Literature "Oidipus" and "Rustem and Sohrab" in Sahname by Fridevsi which is an important work of Persian Literature. The fact that Pamuk was influenced by these two stories actually reveals the difference between east and west cultures. It is seen that in his work named "Kirmizt Sach Kadin", he mixed and unified the fact that the father kills his son in Rustem and Sohrab and the son kills his father in Oidipus. Pamuk penned a new work to use two classic literature story by expanding and combining with modern style. In this study, it will be tried to reveal comparatively to what extent he was influenced by these two stories, how he set these conventional stories with their new formats and what kind of similarites and differences he saw in this new setting. The work will be examined in terms of subject and fiction and the effect of East-West narratives on creating a new work will be evaluated in the context of intertextuality.