Thread: Literary The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
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Old 08-17-2014, 09:12 AM   #15
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Now I really wasn't expecting that!
I suspect any American of a certain age who sees "I am what I am" thinks immediately of Popeye. Kind of a mood-killer as far as Pamuk's tale goes!

OK, that done, I wonder if the reference to Cervantes early in the book was only meant at an invocation of the long and complicated history of the Ottoman Empire versus the west, or if Pamuk also was saying, in effect, great things can come from imprisonment under similar yet even worse circumstances?
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