This author contrasted two myths of filicide and patricide respectively, Ferdowsi's "Rostam and Sohrab" and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, in a novella about a well-digger and his apprentice.
This author contrasted two myths of filicide and patricide respectively, Ferdowsi's "Rostam and Sohrab" and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, in a novella about a well-digger and his apprentice. Another of this author's characters is described as "a bit of a weirdo, but he's got a heart of gold," and that character marries a girl whose love letters he actually wrote for her sister. Along with a novel about Mevlut's futile attempts to strike it rich as a street vendor, this author of The Red-Haired Woman wrote about a self-absorbed man who founds the Lemon Films and falls in love with a girl that sells him a counterfeit (*) handbag; after his wife Sibel leaves him for his infidelity, this author's character Kemal fills a museum with objects that remind him of his lover Fusun. For 10 points, name this Turkish author of The Museum of Innocence who wrote about the poet Ka in Snow.
This author contrasted two myths of filicide and patricide respectively, Ferdowsi's "Rostam and Sohrab" and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, in a novella about a well-digger and his apprentice.
Orhan Pamuk