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In Episode Two of Novel Dialogue, critic and scholar Bruce Robbins sits down with Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk. They have taught classes on the political novel together at Columbia for years, and it shows. They ask how the novel can ever escape its roots in middle-class sensibility and perspective: Joseph Conrad comes up, but so does modern Brazilian Continue reading "1.2 That Demonic Novelistic Impulse: Orhan Pamuk with Bruce Robbins (JP)"

In Episode Two of Novel Dialogue, critic and scholar Bruce Robbins sits down with Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk. They have taught classes on the political novel together at Columbia for years, and it shows. They ask how the novel can ever escape its roots in middle-class sensibility and perspective: Joseph Conrad comes up, but so does modern Brazilian film. Then they discuss the demonic appeal of Russian novels—and why retired military officers produced so many great Turkish translations of Russian novels. We hear tantalizing details about Pamuk’s forthcoming pandemic novel, Nights of Plague. He discusses his move away from “highbrow ironical postmodernist” fiction and reveals his affection for talking about politics–along with his distaste for what the consequences of speaking out may be. “I am not shy about talking…but there are consequences!” Finally, he tells Novel Dialogue what he did to celebrate the news of his Nobel, which came on “a surrealistic day.” Mentioned in the Episode City of God (Brazilian film, 2002) Joseph Conrad (Under Western Eyes, Nostromo) Ivan Turgenev Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Karl Marx, “18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Demons (1871-2), A Writer’s Diary, James Joyce, Dubliners Louis Aragon, (Zolaesque romances at the end of his career), Aurélien Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Aarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu . John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative . Email: plotz@brandeis.edu . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In announcing the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy said of Orhan Pamuk: his \"quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, Istanbul, led him to discover new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.\" Pamuk reads from his new novel, The Museum of Innocence, and discusses his life and work with Reza Aslan (How to Win a Cosmic War).

In announcing the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy said of Orhan Pamuk: his \"quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, Istanbul, led him to discover new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.\" Pamuk reads from his new novel, The Museum of Innocence, and discusses his life and work with Reza Aslan (How to Win a Cosmic War).