Beskrivelse
It is mid-1980s Istanbul and Master Mahmut and his apprentice use ancient methods to dig wells - they are desperate to find water in a barren land.
This is the tale of their struggle, but it is also a deeper investigation - through mesmerising stories and images - into Pamuk's prevailing themes: fathers and sons, the state and individual freedom, reading and seeing. It is also a richly literary work: The Red-Haired Woman borrows from the tradition of the French conte philosophique and asks probing questions of ethics and of the role of art in our lives.
It is both a short, realist text investigating a murder which took place thirty years ago near Istanbul - and a fictional inquiry into the literary foundations of civilizations, comparing two fundamental myths of the West and the East respectively: Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (a story of patricide) and Ferdowsi's tale of Rostam and Sohrab (a story of filicide).
The Red-Haired Woman is a masterful and mesmerising work which further confirms Orhan Pamuk as one of our greatest novelists.
Yderligere information
| Forfatter(e) | Orhan Pamuk |
|---|---|
| Kategori | Bøger |
| Genre(r) | Skønlitteratur |
| Udgivelsesdato | Er udgivet |
| Sprog | Engelsk |
| ISBN-13 | 9780571330300 |
| ISBN-10 | 0571330304 |
| Sidetal | 272 |
| Tags | The Red, Bøger, Bog |
