CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Slippery Words: Orhan Pamuk, Good, and World Literature 1
5. Chapter One A Novel Can Teach You About Other People 32
6. Chapter Two A Novel Can Teach You About Other People’s History 65
7. Chapter Three Orhan Pamuk as Political Gadfly: “The Armenian Issue” 93
8. Chapter Four Orhan Pamuk as Exile: Pamuk and Auerbach in Istanbul 113
9. Chapter Five Orhan Pamuk Wins the Nobel Prize: The Cases of Orhan Pamuk and Mo Yan 128
10. Chapter Six World Literature as an Artifact of the University in the United States: The Part About the Critics 165
11. Coda: Now, What? 189
12. Notes 203
13. Bibliography 237
14. Index 251