SUMMING UP ORHAN PAMUK

<p>The greatness of Orhan Pamuk lies in his deft handling of the novel form that has<br>been exploited towards a realistic portrayal of life as witnessed by the novelist. As all<br>of his works, until recently, were written in his native Turkish, no full-length critical<br>work about him and his art could be produced for an English-speaking audience. It<br>became possible to evaluate his literary art in the West only when his works were<br>translated into English. Most of these critical responses have come in piece meals and<br>confined contexts, leaving ample scope for large-scale interpretation. In this<br>perspective, the current paper is written to make a humble contribution to the existing<br>body of criticism. Moreover, it is expected that this essay shall provide a sensitizing<br>introduction to the readers of English Literature in India, for most of them are not<br>encouraged to study-cum-research on modernist non-English writers.</p>