An Overvıew Attempt To Orhan Pamuk’s Novel My Name Is Red In The Context Of Anxıety Of Influence

The Anxiety of Influence a theory of poetry written by affecting the masses American writer and critic Harold Bloom, tells us possible Oedipal relationship between a poet (or an artisans) and his/her predecessors. According to The Anxiety of Influence a poet could, even most of the time must, creates another poet. However, poems, rather poets, must go through which stages to come to this creation condition from each other? Bloom’s answer to this question is description of complex and that so painful way. According to Bloom, a poet living the anxiety of influence tries to revise his/her poem (or work of art) exposed to Clinamen (Poetic Misprision), Tessera (Completion and Antithesis), Kenosis (Repetition an Discontinuity), Daemonization (The Counter-Sublime), Askesis (Purgation and Solipsism), Apophrades (The Return of The Dead) stages. There are lots of projections about anxiety of influence that we think that we can observe between many poets and writers in Turkish Literature. One of these projections is seen between some of the characters mentioned in My Name is Red novel written by Orhan Pamuk owner of the 2006 Nobel Prize. There are four penmen, miniaturists and craftsmen nicknamed Butterfly, Stork, Olive and Elegant respectively among the crowded cast of characters of the novel. Tradition and style reviews between these characters are partially befit to Bloom’s theory of influence. Nevertheless, there is a main problem about befitting. These characters’ reviews formally follow Bloom’s theory but not inwardly. Because these are significant in the most important two art branches which are penmanship and muralistship at Ottoman Empire that adherence to tradition, to copy the master, and not having personal style. So, because of these reasons Bloom’s theory is not completely compensating the successor – predecessor relationship at Ottoman penmanship and muralistship. This situation contradicts to The Anxiety of Influence in some ways. We try to manage with this study that bring into the open similarities and differences between My Name is Red and The Anxiety of Influence as possible as.

Keywords

Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red, Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence, Successor, Predecessor, Oedipal