{"pk":45376,"title":"Pamuk’s Dis-orient: Reassembling Kafka’s Castle in Snow (2002)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the circuitous relationships between Franz Kafka’s last novel \nThe Castle\n and Orhan Pamuk’s 2002 \nSnow\n. Though Pamuk’s “political novel” does not mention Kafka’s hero by name, K.’s pursuit of the domain of Count Westwest in \nThe Castle\n lays the rhetorical groundwork for Pamuk’s narrative about Turkish modernity and political Islam. \nSnow\n is designed around a pyramid-like series of imbrications—ranging from Kafka’s “K.” to Pamuk’s hero “Ka” to the novel’s Turkish title “\nKar\n” to the Eastern Turkish city of “Kars”—a poetic \nVerschachtelung\n that upends the traditional binary terms “East” and “West.”","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Turkey"},{"word":"political Islam"},{"word":"Franz Kafka"},{"word":"Orhan Pamuk"},{"word":"Kemalism"},{"word":"Turks in Germany"},{"word":"transnational culture"},{"word":"European Islam"},{"word":"Turkish literature."}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55t4v110","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"J","last_name":"Gramling","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2006-12-02T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2006-12-02T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2007-06-22T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/transit/article/45376/galley/34165/download/"}]}