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One of Turkey 's first authors investigates the tentative relationship in the middle of expert and slave in this rich, postmodernist curve on the subject of the doppelgänger. The occasions of this story occur in seventeenth century Istanbul. The White Castle additionally presented a deeper, more individual investment. know the person beside you. It gives the reader a different perspective from today’s day and age because of the possibilities technology gives to people by connecting them to each other. The book entails the difficulties a Venetian scholar who also studied mathematics and astronomy went through, as he has been captured by the Ottoman Pirates.

The book entails a story about a scholar who was traveling from Venice to Naples when all of a sudden he finds himself n the darkness of a ship where he has been kidnapped by a fleet of Ottomans. The occasions of this story happen in seventeenth century Istanbul. Before long, he turns into the slave of a researcher known as Hoja, a man who is about his own particular age, and with whom he imparts a solid physical likeness. …show more content…

At the point when the storyteller first meets Hoja, Hoja looks as he did, or in any event accepts he looked, having not seen his appearance sooner or later. Besides, Hoja understands this, and as both men take in looked into more about one another, the acknowledgment that Hoja could exchange places with him and come back to Italy without any issues turns into a wellspring of misery for the storyteller. At the point when Hoja can 't be tried to visit the sultan, he sends the storyteller in his pretense. There is likewise vagueness in the last part of the book. Problematic storyteller, numerous years after the fact asserts that he was motivated to compose the story while trading stories with an explorer. Whether the story really occurred, and in the event that it did, whether the storyteller was the anonymous slave or Hoja is left

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