Talk:Snow (novel)
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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Orhan Pamuk Snow.png
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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:22, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Kar, Kars, and Ka?
True or false--the name of the city of Kars is related to Kar ("Snow")?
- False: for starters -s isn't a Turkish suffix.
And can anyone make sense of Pamuk's assignment of the name "Ka" to his main character? Is that one letter in Turkish? (Several times in the book he seems to encounter a neon "K" sign.) Are there any real-life analogues for this pen-naming practice, perhaps in the case of Pamuk himself?
- Strictly speaking the Turkish name for the letter K is ke; but in certain abbreviations & acronyms it's more natural to call it ka. The most obvious literary precedent is K. in Kafka's The Castle and Josef K. in his The Trial.
- In Ch 1 of the book we're told that he prefers being called Ka, a name derived from the initials of his real name, Kerim Alakuşoğlu.
In general, do any of the characters (except "Orhan", of course) or events of the book have counterparts in real life? Thanks...Dawud (talk) 06:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- I leave this one to other intrepid editors ... --NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 15:59, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
