Sufism Caricatured in Orhan Pamuk 's "The New Life"
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2015
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Beykent Üniversitesi
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The New Life mocks the Sufi experience. Issues essential to Sufism appear to exist in the novel. Osman starts his journey like a Sufi Dervish on the hope of finding both Janan and the angel. In Sufi literature, woman (love) is seen as a symbol of the much sought Being; but in Osman's case, his love for Janan reeks more of libidinal desire rather than spiritual. In the journey process Pamuk mockingly shows us a traveler in pursuit of vengeance rather than in search of God. The mockery of the Sufi tradition becomes further evident in the narrative as the search for the new life turns from a belief to an obsession. Osman's disillusionment at the end of his journeys epitomizes Pamuk's mockery of the Sufi traveler and ushers in the undignified moment where the traveler dies realizing that the sought angel is false.
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Sufism, Orhan Pamuk, parody
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BEYKENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ SOSYAL BİLİMLER DERGİSİ Sufism Caricatured in Orhan Pamuk 's "The New Life" Visam Mansur Volume 8 (2) 2015, 6-31
