By Orhan Pamuk
The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly attractive novel is embarked on a global of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantine conspiracies that whirl around the steppes and forlorn frontier cities of Turkey. And with the recent existence, Pamuk himself vaults from the vanguard of his country's writers into the sector of worldwide literature. during the unmarried act of examining a e-book, a tender pupil is uprooted from his outdated lifestyles and identification. inside days he has fallen in love with the luminous and elusive Janan; witnessed the tried assassination of a rival suitor; and forsaken his relations to trip aimlessly via a nocturnal panorama of traveler's cafes and apocalyptic bus wrecks. As imagined by way of Pamuk, the result's a wondrous marriage of the highbrow mystery and excessive romance.
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Perhaps, in fact, Michel de Certeau has a particularly suggestive point when he argues that “The text was formerly found at school. Today the text is society itself ” (167). I am inclined to say that The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is a case of the windmill in a walnut shell. * * * Chaucer expects a great deal from both his reading or his listening audience for The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: he depends on a heightened sense of plain action within a physical space while asking us to consider the disposition of those events within a textspace laden with cultural expectation.
39 The astrolabe clearly is not the convenient and f lexible f lat surface Latour values, but it is a hand-held model that connects the earthbound observer and the heavens—no minor event for Chaucer and his little Lewis, as we will see. Nichols goes on to say that Chaucer’s “showing the connection of the parts of the human body with the heavenly divisions or signs of the zodiac . . also reinforced the idea of a continuum between the individual human being and the visible world” so that “to perceive the universe scientifically was to know the boundaries of one’s own being” (4), making claims, then, for observing the space between here and there.
Bachelard is arguing for the “dynamic rivalry between house and universe” so that “we are far removed from any reference to simple geometrical forms” (47). indd 17 6/22/2011 4:23:17 PM 18 R E A SON A N D I M AGI N AT ION In fact, as Bachelard argues, “A house that is as dynamic as this [those of the medieval miniatures] allows the poet [or miniaturist or magician] to inhabit the universe” (51). And later: “This coexistence of things in a space to which we add consciousness of our existence, is a very concrete thing” (203).
