ABSTRACT
This chapter, in highlighting the book’s thesis—how the self in Pamuk’s novels is transformed with the refashioning of city architecture—draws together key elements from the preceding chapters. It provides a brief survey of how Pamuk’s contemporaries negotiate the city in their writing, and brings together the multiple traditions of city writing that have affected Pamuk’s literary output. It invokes certain theoretical positions to present the furthering of postmodernism—itself ironic with regard to its own notions—into simulacra and heterotopic “realities” in Pamuk’s novels. The fictional and the real writer/artist engage in a project of reconstruction and reconstitution that is subverted by its own artificiality. The book concludes with the observation that Pamuk’s oeuvre enacts a gesture of faith toward the city: of hope, reconciliation, reconstruction, and restitution.
