Description
Orhan Pamuk writes novels as one digs a deep well with an embroidery needle. Any idea he chooses as the focus of his work, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, leads him to paint a panorama—human, social, historical, political, and philosophical—of Turkey and the world, both developed and developing.
At the beginning of “The New Life,” the narrator says: “I read a book that changed the course of my entire life.” But what was this book? Who was its author? And what ideas lie hidden within its pages?
These questions remain mathematical unknowns. Thus, the narrator takes the reader on two journeys, separated by ten years, to search for possible answers to these unknowns.
But what is this new life that our brilliant writer envisions? Is it the socio-economic and political makeup of Western life, or the makeup of Eastern life? Is it found in the material world or in metaphysics?
A writer of this caliber would never suggest a specific lifestyle within a literary work, as defining, framing, and categorizing is not his primary purpose. He poses questions and critiques phenomena and patterns without appearing to criticize or find fault.
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