The dream as a special chronotope of «Istambul text » by Orhan Pamuk

Abstract

The article analyzes specifics of the chronotope in a so-called «Istanbul text» by the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, particularly in his novel The White Castle. Especial attention is given to a mythologem of a dream as to a specific chronotope that forms a mithopoetic content of the novel.
In the novel The White Castle, a model of an intellectual bestseller, the mythologem of a dream grows out of the function of the «cliche method» typical for mass literature and has a wide «high literature» range of operation and types. Dream as a specific chronotope is used in the text of the novel to describe the dream itself; to illustrate a transitional state of dream – reality; as a poetic element in the description of reality. A number of artistic varieties of dreams (dream as a remembrance, retrospection-reminiscence; dream as a selfexpression; dream as a sign of repentance) is supplemented in the novel by the image of a dream-introspection; dream as an insight; dream as a spiritual cleansing. Dreams in the novel by Orhan Pamuk become an essential element of clarification of the conceptual idea of the writer’s creativity: the conventional boundaries between East and West, and the need of self-identity.