TIME AND PLACE IN ORHAN PAMUK'S NOVEL "STRANGE THOUGHTS IN MY HEAD"

Abstract

The time and place in Orhan Pamuk's novel 'Strange Thoughts in My Head' in his main analysis he deals with the time and place in the novel, as the title suggests. Edin Pobrić's book "Time in a Novel" will serve as the main theoretical base for the study of time and place.
The problem of identity is one of the themes in Pamuk's novels. His novels are mostly about the relationship between East and West. And all his novels carry autobiographical elements, he weaved a part of himself into everything, including his family. That is why Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish writer who has been considered one of the most popular literary creators in today's Turkey for many years. His novels break reading records, and his literary and scientific work attracts a great deal of attention, both in literary and intellectual circles, and among the general readership in Turkey and abroad.
Orhan Pamuk's novel "Strange Thoughts in My Head" has a dynamic structure reminiscent of drama, so immediately based on a mixture that we see of different genres and types. Characters who tell their lives in the novel are aware of each other and often communicate with each other and refer to each other, which is another characteristic of the postmodern novel. Intertextuality is emphasized and clearly visible in the novel. sentences from the works of other authors. The novel "Strange Thoughts in My Head" also has elements of a detective novel (in the part where Ferhat's murder is investigated), a historical novel (in the part where is writing about the events of coups), and a love novel (relationships between individual characters, Mevlut and Rajih, Ferhat and Smiha, Korkut and Vediha, etc.).