Delve Readers Seminar: Orhan Pamuk’s Nights of Plague: Fairy-tale, History, Allegory
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesExplore Orhan Pamuk’s new novel, Nights of Plague, an epic narrative which depicts the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the late Ottoman era during the reign of the despotic Sultan Abdülhamid II. Presented as an historical novel, Nights of Plague’s diseased universe resonates with our current world, hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Pamuk’s signature style manifests itself through multiple narrative mediations, leading to an open-ended representation of history. Published in the original in 2021, the English translation of Nights of Plague is scheduled to appear in early October 2022. Texts Nights of Plague, Orhan Pamuk. translated by Ekin Oklap. Penguin-Randomhouse. October 4, 2022. The book can be preordered. It will be also available in Ebook and Audiobook formats. Access Program We want our writing…