Aesthetics of East and Ethics of West in the Literature Work of Orchan Pamuk Cover Image

Estetika istoka i etika zapada u djelu Orhana Pamuka
Aesthetics of East and Ethics of West in the Literature Work of Orchan Pamuk

Author(s): Sonja Tomović-Šundić
Subject(s): Turkish Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Filološki fakultet, Nikšić
Keywords: red; eastern culture; western culture; illumination; painting;

Summary/Abstract: This work is based on a research of poetical world of Orchan Pamuk. Author tried with literatre waz to describe difference between east - visual and west culture of word. Particularly his concept of colour, first Red, it’s analized with the point of her religious sence in shaping the world. Essay dedicated to Pamuc, deals with personal author poethic wich interlock two ways - love of the main heroes and mastor workshop of the sultan’s painters and mastor who it’s on decoration bright books imitating it’s own act of creating the world. This way, two plans interlock and refill in the authors vision of the world between Eros and Tanatos. The theme of art and colours as it’s dominant look particularly is to pointed out in Pamuck’s work, because colour has a theological sence in his deep understanding in the mistick of east.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 134-146
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Montenegrine