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From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople. There he falls into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja--"master"--a man who is his exact double. In the years that follow, the slave instructs his master in Western science and technology, from medicine to pyrotechnics. But Hoja wants to know more: why he and his captive are the persons they are and whether, given knowledge of each other's most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange identities. Set in a world of magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery, The White Castle is a colorful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination. Translated from the Turkish by Victoria Holbrook.
"East West Mimesis" follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists
who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated
society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach
found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was
banished from Europe. She challenges the notion of exile as
synonymous with intellectual isolation and shows the reciprocal
effects of German emigres on Turkey's humanist reform movement. By
making literary critical concepts productive for our understanding
of Turkish cultural history, the book provides a new approach to
the study of East-West relations.
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