COMP-LIT 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unreliable Narrator
2 Feb 2017
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Comp lit 141: good and evil; east and west. Epigraph contains a mistranslation (turkish to english) echoes the text. Differences between the original and translated versions: the whole story could be seen as a mistranslation because of the unprofessional way the translator is translating the story. Preface brings in the background of the fictional characters from pamuk"s last book that acts as if the character is the founder and translator of the. Faruk found this manuscript in an archive of sorts, a storage unit with no order, of overflowing past documents that are written in. Arabic script instead of the known latin script of the country: modern people couldn"t read the manuscript and all the. Faruk, the writer of the preface talks of how the supposed manuscript other documents that faruk found doesn"t align with real history. The character focused on history in his book which is why this is interesting: history usually is made by powerful figures.
