Романът „Чумни нощи“ на Орхан Памук в задочен диалог с Йосиф Бродски или отново за границите между живописта и поезията
The novel „Nights of Plague“ by Orhan Pamuk in dialogue with Joseph Brodsky, or again about the boundaries between painting and poetry

Summary/Abstract: The article is a comparative overview of the functions of ekphrasis in two works – Joseph Brodsky’s travelogue Watermark: An Essay on Venice, and Orhan Pamuk’s novel Nights of Plague. The classic experience of Lessing's Laocoön or on the boundaries between painting and poetry has already outlined the boundaries between painting and poetry, and Husserl's philosophy has mapped the boundaries in the world through analogy. Two postmodern authors Pamuk and Brodsky – a poet and a storyteller by their creative nature – are engaged in an indirect dialogue in which they experiment with the genres of novel, essay, travelogue, ekphrasis, mystification. The pictures of plague and suffering in their works are paradoxically presented in the context of the idea of pure beauty, as they seek the experience of the aesthetics of the ugly. In a theoretical aspect, the power of the eye and the word are compared, the ability of words to simultaneously paint and tell about the world. Plague, disease and suffering are seen as an opportunity, as a chance for progress and change, for purification.

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