Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red and Snow: Representations of the Clash between the East and the West

The clash between the East and the West, in other words, the East-West dichotomy, has various connotations in numerous of scientific fields like sociology, geography, history, religion, and literary studies. Despite the difference in its practices, it continues to represent this historical division or polarization between the two fractions of the world, namely the East and the West, which is still in existence in this modern world of today. This article sought to explore this polarization from literary perspective. In this regard, Nobel Prize-winning author, Orhan Pamuk’s two prominent literary works have been selected for investigating the extent and depth of the clash between two civilizations. Pamuk invited his readers to explore this prevalent conflict between East and West in his novels, My Name is Red and Snow. His preoccupation with this theme was skillfully dealt through an overwhelming perspective and it is recurrent throughout the works in question. The clash is at the heart of the novel, My Name is Red, and was clearly reflected in different perspectives of looking at the world, particularly in Eastern and Western methods of painting. In Snow, these two worlds acted as the primary focus and the main source of robust and spirited tension