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Originally published
  
1983

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Author
  
Orhan Pamuk

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The Silent House (1983) is Orhan Pamuk's second novel published after Cevdet Bey and His Sons. The novel tells the story of a week in which 3 siblings go to visit their grandmother in Cennethisar, a small town near Istanbul.

Contents

General

The Silent House consists of 32 chapters. Each chapter is narrated from a different narrator's point of view in the first person. The names of the five narrators in the novel in turn are Recep, Buyukhanim, Hasan, Faruk and Metin. The narrator of the opening chapter is Recep and the narrator of the closing chapter is Buyukhanim. Each of the narrators has a different number of chapters to tell. Hasan has eight, Buyukhanim seven, Recep six, Faruk six, and Metin has five chapters. The distribution of the chapters to the narrators are as following:

Time and Place

Place: Cennethisar

Time: July 1980. The Silent House takes place just one month before the military coup of September 12 in Turkey. Therefore, the novel carries the influence of the great political tension.

Plot

Behcet Necatigil summarizes the plot of the novel: One of the five narrators of The Silent House, historian Faruk does some research on Ottoman History in an archive in Gebze which is a small town near Istanbul.

Characters

→ Sessiz Ev: Karakterler.

Chapters of the Novel

→ Sessiz Ev: Bölümler.

The Silent House and Stream of Consciousness

Related Sources:

  • Stream of Consciousness
  • internal monologue
  • The Interpretations of Orhan Pamuk on The Silent House

    Orhan Pamuk's observations about the novel are very significant in terms of the novel's analysis. All of the quotation are taken from the first edition of his book "The Other Colors" in which he brings his various writings together.

  • The author's approach to the novel
  • On the families in the novel
  • On the birth of The Silent House
  • On the young people in The Silent House
  • On the characters of The Silent House
  • The Awards that The Silent House received

  • 1984 Madaralı Roman Ödülü
  • 1991 Prix de la découverte européenne (European Discovery Award)
  • 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist for the English translation
  • Translations of The Silent House

  • French
  • La maison du silence, by Münevver Andaç (Paris: Gallimard, 1988).
  • Italian
  • La casa del silenzio, by Francesco Bruno (Milano: Frassinelli, 1993).
  • Dutch
  • Het huis van de stilte, by Margreet Dorleijn (Amsterdam : De Arbeiderspers, 1995).
  • Swedish
  • Det tysta huset, by Dilek Gür (Stockholm : Norstedt, 1998).
  • Spanish
  • La casa del silencio, by Rafael Carpintero Ortega (Madrid : Metáfora Ediciones, 2001).
  • Russian
  • Дом тишины (Dom Tishiny), by Apollinarija Avrutina (Sankt-Peterburg : Amfora, 2007).
  • Croatian
  • Tiha kuća, by Marta Andrić (Zagreb : Vuković & Runjić, 2008).
  • Polish
  • Dom ciszy, by Anna Akbike Sulimowicz (Kraków : Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2009).
  • German
  • Das stille Haus, by Gerhard Meier (München : Hanser, 2009)

    References

    The Silent House (novel) Wikipedia