My name is red5/24/2023 ![]() They were both writers whose opposition to the regime of their country, though expressed in different degrees, was well known, especially by the regime itself. ![]() In 1970 it was time for Solzhenitsyn to get the same prize. It was quite obvious at the time that the writer did not want to face all the trouble that his acceptance of this international recognition was likely to heap on him in the Soviet regime. Pasternak had to refuse the Nobel Prize in 1958. However, not all persecuted writers are at the same time Nobel winners. There are many places in the world where the relationship is highly problematic, and in that sense Pamuk’s situation is not unique. On the other hand, this kind of conflict between artist and state can be taken as the index of the level of democratic culture in a given society. ![]() We did not see French authorities or politicians condemn Sartre for his condemnation of French politics or observe Steinbeck on trial for criticizing American capitalism. Not many writers in the world have the kind of relationship with their own country as the one that Orhan Pamuk has with Turkey. Murat Belge states that this is the result of dynamics in Turkish society.Ī writer (or any artist or intellectual) who is at odds with the political authorities of his country is unfortunately still not an “unheard of” case in the world, though this has long ceased to be “heard of”, in the free democratic world. ![]()
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